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Berlin Airlift
This event took place in western Germany and it was because Soviet forces blockaded railroad and water access to the Allied controlled areas of Berlin. -
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Creation of NATO
This took place in Washington, DC. There were 12 members of this alliance, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the U.S. -
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Korean War
The Northern Korean people's army invaded South Korea in a coordinated general attack at several strategic points. It was a conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea. -
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Creation of Warsaw Pact
This happened between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe, this took place in Warsaw, Poland. -
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Vietnam War
A military conflict between North Vietnam and South Vietnam some people describe it as a proxy war of the Cold War era. -
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Sputnik
The U.S. and the Soviet Union were involved. The spacecraft, named Sputnik after the Russian word for "fellow traveler," was launched at 10:29 p.m. Moscow time from the Tyuratam launch base in the Kazakh Republic -
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Construction of Berlin Wall
The communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build barbed wire and concrete between East and West Berlin. -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The U.S. and the Soviet Union were also involved in this one, it took place on the island of Cuba and the war was over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba. -
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Moon landing
This event reestablished the US, who had at first led the Cold War with the development of nuclear weapons, as the leading technological superpower -
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Destruction of Berlin Wall
This took place in East Berlin and Germans were standing on top of the wall in front of the Brandenburg gate in the days before the wall was torn down.