The US and Soviets had a rivalry going on about space and who can get the farthest first. Soviets started beating the United States with Sputnik 1. However ,when they kept competing it actually brought them together and made the International Space Station.
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
One of the first major international crises of the Cold War. Was a turning point in post World War 2 Europe.Planes were used to get around the Soviet blockade of Berlin.
Bay of Pigs
Where the US tried to invade Cuba but failed, and also embarrassed the entire United States. It is considered part of the Cold War because the United States was trying to stop communism from taking hold in the Americas.It is called the Bay of pigs because CIA-trained Cuban exiles to land at the bay on Cuba's southern coast called Bahia de Cochinos.
Cuban missile crisis
The closest to the US and the Soviets actually fighting. It also includes nuclear warfare. Also known as the October Crisis.
Korean War
This is where things got really hectic for the Soviet Union and the United States. Also where North Korea invaded South Korea.China fought with North Korea, the Soviet Union sent them military equipment. The United States sent most of the troops that were sent to aid South Korea.
Flatford Mill
Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) is an oil painting by English artist John Constable, painted in 1816. It is Constable's largest exhibition canvas to be painted mainly outdoors, the first of his large "six-foot" paintings [more]
The Fighting Temeraire
The closest to the US and the Soviets actually fighting. It also includes nuclear warfare. Also known as the October Crisis.
The Hireling Shepherd
This is a painting by William Holman Hunt, a leading British Pre-Raphaelite.
Soviets invade Afghanistan
The US and the Soviets each back a different side and this led to the US boycotting the 1980 Olympics.This war lasted over nine years.In support of the Afghanistan communist government in its conflict with anti-communist.
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]
