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Berlin Aircraft
The USSR had made a blockage in the ground so the British decided to airlift supplies to berlin. -
Creation of Warsaw Pact
It was a treaty establishing a mutual defense organization composed originally of the Soviet Union, Albania, and a few other countries. -
Sputnik
It was when the USSR successfully launched the first artificial satellite and it was able to orbit the earth in about 98 minutes because it was the size of a beach ball -
Creation of NATO
It was the creation of the first-ever peacetime alliance it was a security against the USSR. Nato stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. -
Construction of the Berlin Wall
A guarded barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin separating West Berlin from surrounding East Germany. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A 13-day long confrontation between the U.S. and the USSR involving the United States discovery of the USSR deploying ballistic missiles in Cuba, this was also when the two countries came closest to nuclear conflict. -
Moon landing
The first manned mission to land on another planetary body. -
Destruction of Berlin wall
The destruction of the Berlin wall was actually the USSR because East Germany convinced them to destroy it ending the cold war.
