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Berlin Airlift
Berlin got their food and fuel from the Berlin airlift. The U.S. and the U.K. would deliver over 2.3 million tons of food using about 278,000 planes. In all they traveled over 92 million miles. -
Creation of NATO
North Atlantic Alliance is an intergovernmental military alliance between 31 member states, 29 European, and two North American. The treaty was made to secure peace in Europe. Also to promote cooperation among its members and to guard their freedom. -
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Korean War
The Korean war started with tension on the Korean Peninsula. The war was between the Northern Koreans and the Southern Koreans. There were approximately 2.5 million people dead. -
Creation of Warsaw Pact
After the accession of West Germany to the Alliance. It was between the Soviet Union and seven other bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe. It focused on strengthening the Soviet military. -
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Vietnam War
It was a conflict between South Vietnam and North Vietnam and its principal ally the United States. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing war between the Soviet Union and the United States. Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975. -
Sputnick
The Sputnik was the first artificial satellite that NASA launched. It was approximately the size of a basketball and traveled 18,000 mph. This successful launch was the start of the Space Race. -
Construction of Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was constituted by the GDR (German Democratic Republic).The wall was built to cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany. The wall was built with barbed wire and concrete block wall. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Soviet Union was under orders from Premier Nikita Khrushchev. They started to secretly deploy a thermonuclear strike force in Cuba. This was all happening just 90 miles from the United States. -
Moon Landing
Apollo 11 was the race to space that first landed humans on the moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle, the spacecraft on the moon. Everyone who went to the moon made it back to Earth safely. -
Destruction of Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a wall that separated communist East Germany from West Germany. In November 500,000 people gathered in East Berlin in a massive protest.In June of 1990 the East German Border Troops officially started disassembling the wall.