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US and UK delivered more than 2.3 million tons of supplies (food, fuel, etc) to West Berlin via more than 278,000 airdrops.
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Formed with the signing of the Washinton Treaty. NATO is a security alliance of 30 countries from North America to Europe. -
The conflict between the democratic peoples Rebuplic of Korea(north) and the Republic of Korea(south)
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A collective defense treaty was established by the Soviet Union and 7 other Soviet satellite states(in Central and Eastern Europe). -
A long, costly, and divisible war that pitted the Communist government of North Vietnam against Soth Vietnam and its ally the United States.
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The first artificial Satelight was launched in an elliptical low of Earth’s orbit by the Soviet Union. Part of the Soviet Space Program. -
An American U-2 spy plane secretly took pictures of nuclear missiles being built by the Soviet Union in Cuba. lasted from October 16, 1962- October 29, 1962. -
Constructed by the German Democratic Republic, separating East Germany from West Germany(Berlin). -
American astronaut Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first humans to step foot on the moon. -
The first step towards German reunification. The political, economic, and social impact of the Fall of the Berlin Wall weakened the already unstable East German government.