Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis happened in 1962, The soviets were putting nuclear missiles in Cuba. The U.S. had missiles in Turkey. The Soviet Union was sending ships in and out of Cuba with nuclear weapons on them so we sat up a quarantine to try and keep the weapons from getting into Cuba. Soviet Union and U.S. finally came to an agreement they would take the nuclear missiles out of Cuba and we would take the nuclear missiles out of Turkey.

Berlin Airlift

The Soviet Union quarantined East Berlin. Before the Berlin airlift the soviets didn't provide any food or fuel for East Berlin until the U.S. and G.B. started sending planes with food and fuel to East Berlin. The NATO alliance was formed. NATO stands for North, Atlantic, Treaty, Organization. This increased in fear of Soviet control, and the Cold War ends U.S. isolationism.

Communism

Commusism played a huge part in the Cold War. The Soviet Union had to tighten up their grip on the Eastern Front because they needed more communist countries. Soviet Union had Satellite Nations which were nations that were controlled by communist nations. Stalin which was the Soviet Unions leader during the cold war took over the satellite nations industries. Soviets were now a major threat to the U.S. North Korea was communist and West Berlin was a Satellite Nation.
Communist Government was corrupt, so the government controlled anything they could take your car if they needed it, they could take over the business and you could lose your job. Communism was spreading to China, Korea and other countries.