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Berlin Airlift
Was a time in which soviet forces blocked all entryways into Berlin and America and Britain helped by airlifting food and fuel to them. -
Creation of NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, this was US and 11 other western countries against the spread of communism. -
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Korean War
75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People's Army came across the 38th parallel, the boundary -
Creation of Warsaw Pact
further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact. -
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Vietnam War
Was a Cold War conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam. -
Sputnik
Sputnik was the first artificial space satellite that the soviet union launched into a low space earth orbit. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
This was a 13 day confrontation between the U.S. and the soviet union about one of america's ballistic missiles in italy and turkey with Russia's in cuba. -
Moon Landing
The arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the moon, the mission was called Apollo 11. -
Construction of the Berlin Wall
Covered about 96 miles and costed around 25 million dollars to build. -
Destruction of the Berlin Wall
The berlin wall was torn down by Germans as a symbol of the fall of the East German Communist Government.
