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The US and UK delivered more than 2.3 million tons of food, fuel and supplies to west Berlin via more than 278,000 airdrops.
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Formed with the signing of the Washington Treaty, NATO is a security alliance of 30 countries from North America and Europe -
Was a collective defense treaty established by the soviet union and 7 other soviet satellite states in central and eastern Europe. -
Conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North) and the Republic of Korea (South) in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives
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Was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of north Vietnam against south Vietnam and its principal ally, the US.
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was the first artificial earth satellite. launched into an elliptical low earth orbit by the soviet union. -
Constructed by the German Democratic Republic, the Wall completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until government officials opened it. -
Was a major confrontation that brought the US and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles in Cuba. -
American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first humans ever to land on the moon. -
The first step towards German reunification. Political, economical, and social impact of the fall of the berlin wall further weakened the already unstable East German government.