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Berlin Airlift
The Soviet Union blockaded supplies coming from Western Europe, so the United States airlifted supplies for battle into Eastern Europe. -
Creation of NATO
The creation of NATO provided collective security against the Soviet Union for Western Europe. -
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Korean War
A war between North Korea and South Korea. South Korea = Western Europe. North Korea = Eastern Europe. This was a war over whether Korea should side as socialist or democratic. -
Creation of the Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact put socialist Eastern Europe in charge of their Eastern Europe member states’ military. This was an effort to make a socialistic alliance with other socialist countries. -
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Vietnam War
This was a war fought to try to keep Vietnam from being socialist; an American effort. -
Sputnik
The Soviet Union launched the first artificial Earth satellite. -
Construction of the Berlin Wall
A guarded concrete wall that divided Berlin, Germany. It also divided socialist Eastern & democratic Western Europe. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A 13-day confrontation between the US and the USSR over a Soviet Union ballistic missile found in Cuba. -
Moon Landing
When the US landed on the moon for the very first time ever. (First Man on the Moon) -
Destruction of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was deconstructed in an effort to stop the divide of democratic eastern Europe and socialist western Europe. Eastern Europe decided to stop being so strict on travel between the Eastern & Western divide.
