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Berlin Airlift
Germany and the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. So the allies brought food and supplys -
NATO
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Korean war
was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and rebellions in South Korea. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union -
Warsaw pact
The Soviet Union formed this alliance as a counterbalance to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a collective security alliance concluded between the United States, Canada, and Western European nations in 1949. The Warsaw Pact supplemented existing agreements. -
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. -
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Sputnik
Was a USSR satellite that was the first artificial satellite and the first to orbit the earth for three months Sputnik orbited the earth every 96 minutes until it burned up in the earth's atmosphere -
Construction of Berline wall
The Wall was built in 1961 to prevent East Germans from fleeing and stop an economically disastrous migration of workers. It was a symbol of the Cold War, and its fall in 1989 marked the approaching end of the war -
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Cuban missile crisis
The Cuban missile crisis was 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
American astronauts Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin (1930-) became the first humans ever to land on the moon. About six-and-a-half hours later, Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon. -
The destruction of the Berlin Wall
the Peaceful Revolution was a pivotal event in world history that marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and one of the events that started the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe, preceded by the Solidarity Movement in Poland.