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NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere
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The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany.
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The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border
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Treaty Organization was a political and military alliance established on May 14, 1955 between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries
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North Vietnam dramatically increased its military assistance to the Viet Cong, which then began attacking South Vietnamese military units. In the American domino theory they feared that if communism took hold in Vietnam, it would spread to other countries nearby
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the Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite
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The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a time of heightened confrontation between the Soviet Union, the United States, and Cuba during the Cold War.
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A Moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both manned and robotic missions
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The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany.