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berlin air lift
The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949. At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. -
soviet union gets the atomic bomb
this is the first test done in the soviet union using the atomic bomb this scared the american people becuase they didnt think the soviet union would develope the technolgy so quickly -
the launch of sptnik
sptnik 1 was the first artificial earth satellite the soveit union launched it into an elliptical low earth orbit on ovtober 4 1957 it was a58 cm diameter polished metal sphere with four external radio antennae to broad cast radio pulses
