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U.S and U.K deliver 2.3 million tons of supplies to W. Berlin. They delivered them using more than 278k airdrops. Took more than 189k flights and nearly 600k hours. -
Was laid down on April 4th with the sign of the North Atlantic/Washington Treaty. Which forms the basis of NATO as a whole. -
Was fought on the Korean Peninsula with North and South Korea. The war ended up beginning when North Korea invaded South Korea with clashes occurring on the border.
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Used to be known as the “Treaty of Friendship” with both cooperation and assistance from both parties. -
It was the second one of the Wars in Indochina but was fought between North and South Vietnam.
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The USSR starts what’s known as the “Space Race” after launching a satellite called Sputnik 1 into space. The Sputnik satellite was the size of a basketball and was the first manmade object to go around the earth. This started a new phase of the Cold War between the US and USSR. -
The purpose of this construction in the first place was to keep Western “fascists” away so they can’t enter East Germany and lessening the power of the socialist state. -
A confrontation both direct and pretty dangerous in its own right. It was also between the US and the Soviet Union so it’s already pretty bad. Especially during the Cold War. -
The arrival of a spaceship on the Moon. Both with crew and robotic missions. The first spaceship to actually get to te Moon was Soviet Union’s Luna 2. -
On the night of November 9th, 1989, crowds of Germans began to dismantle the Berlin Wall. The wall had symbolized the division of Europe throughout the cold war.