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American and British air forces flew over Berlin more than 250,000 times dropping necessities due to a soviet blockade.
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The North Atlantic Alliance was formed to secure peace in Europe, to promote cooperation among its members and to guard their freedom. Its founders being the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, Portugal, Denmark, Iceland and Luxembourg. -
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War fought between North and South Korea.
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Formally known as the treaty of friendship, co-operation and mutual assistance was made right after the accentian of west Germany to the alliance. -
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It was the second of the Indochina wars and was officially fought between north Vietnam and south Vietnam.
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Sputnik was the first artificial satellite launched from earth by the Soviet Union. -
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Built to keep western fascists from entering east Germany and undermining the socialist state.
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35 day confrontation between the us and the Soviet Union. It was the closest that the cold war came to escalating into a full scale nuclear war.
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The first man on the moon was aboard the US launched Apollo 11 on the 20th of July 1969. However the first man made object to touch the moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 on the 13th of September 1959. -
The citizens of the GED were free to cross the country's borders.