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the first major international crises of the Cold War, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies railway, road, and canal access, to the sectors of Berlin under western control
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it is a North Atlantic Treaty Organization, created by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union
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it was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO
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the world first artificial satellite that was almost the size of the beach ball, it took 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path
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a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961-1989
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it was a 13-day confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union initiated by the American Discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba (war)
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when humans first landed on the moon, Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin formed the American crew that landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle
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the official demolition of the berlin wall