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Berlin Airlift
US and British pilots begin delivering food and supplies by airplane to Berlin after the city is isolated by Soviet Union blockade -
Creation of Warsaw Pact
U.S. and Britain pilots began delivering food and supplies by airplane to Berlin after the city is isolated by USSR blockade -
Sputnik
World's first artifical satellite -
Cuban Missile Crisis
direct and dangerous confrontation between U.S. and USSR during cold war. Came close to nuclear conflict -
Destruction of Berlin Wall
the fall of the wall. eastern europe, spokesman for east berlins communist party announced change with west.