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Berlin Airlift
Western allies started a massive airlift to counter the Berlin blockade imposed by the Soviet regime -
Creation of NATO
the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union -
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Korean War
A long costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States -
Creation of Warsaw pact
In Warsaw Poland, a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe -
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Vietnam war
a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States -
Suptnik
During the cold war, there was the Space race, and the USSR launched a basketball-sized satellite that became the first manmade object to orbit the Earth, which is known as Sputnik. -
Construction of Berlin Wall
East German soldiers laid down more than 30 miles of barbed wire barrier through the heart of Berlin. -
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Cuban missile crisis
a major confrontation in 1962 that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles in Cuba -
Moon Landing
When the US’ Apollo 11 was the first to land on the moon during the space race -
Destruction of the Berlin wall
The destruction of the Berlin wall was the first step toward Germany's Reunification