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one of the first major international crises of the Cold War in was in western germany
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created by the United States an Canada and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union -
was between north korea and south korea
North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and rebellions in South Korea. -
a political and military alliance established between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries -
pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally
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was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program -
built by the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin -
direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict -
the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon -
the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled