What were the major battles of the cold war?

The Cold War is the term used to explain the struggle between the communist nations and the democratic nations following World War II. The Cold War took political, economic, social, and military forms. It would be too extensive a list to indicate all the events of the Cold War. Here are a few of the major events. * The creation of the "Iron Curtain" by the Soviet Union following WW II. This cut off almost all contact between East and West in Europe. * The Marshall Plan and the policy of Containment. * The Berlin Blocade of West Germany by the Soviet Union. * The Berlin Airlift. * Forming of NATO. * Forming of Warsaw Pact. * Forming of Non-Alignment Treaty. * The Korean War (sometimes the Cold War became a hot war). * Problems in the Middle East. The US was attempting to prevent communist expansion in that area. * The U-2 incident during the Eisenhower administration. * Castro and Cuba. * The Bay of Pigs event during the Kennedy administration. * The creation of the Berlin Wall by East Germany and the Soviet Union. * The Cuban Missile Crisis. * The Vietnam War. * Detante * Glasnost and Perestroika. * Falling of the Berlin Wall. * Dissolution of the USSR.