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Berlin Blockade
This event happened on June 24, 1948 and it is when the Soviet Union cut off all access into West Berlin and those people were trapped inside. It happened in West Berlin (obviously) and it was to prevent any Western Allies from getting in to West Berlin. How and why it happened was disagreements over the future of Germany to prevent anything from happening to it. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The U.S. and Cuban exiles tried to overthrow the communist Cuban government lead by Fidel Castro, but failed. They wanted to overthrow them because they thought they would surprise him and to make Cuba not a communist country any more. It happened on April 17, 1961 and was located in Cuba, at the Bay of Pigs and the U.S. used Cuban exiles that had been trained by the CIA to fight Castro with them.