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The Berlin Airlift only lasted a total of 15 months.
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This method was invented to help save lives by bringing coal, supplies and food to the people of berlin.
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The planes taking these goods to Berlin were able to carry 3 tons at a time.
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Also known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP),
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Is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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North Korea invaded South Korea at it started the war.
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On July 5 the first U.S troops engaged the North Koreans at Osan, south of Seoul.
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This war caused great destruction and loss of lives.
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The war raged throughout the nation.
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During the summer of 1950, the United States and the other United Nations states scrambled to contain North Koreas quick moving army.
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The border between East Berlin and West Berlin was opened daily half a million people cross the border from one part of the city to the other party of the city.
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192 people were killed on the Berlin Wall, there was 302 watch towers, and 20 bunkers.
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The Berlin Wall kept the East Germans from fleeing to the west for 28 years.
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Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to a nuclear war.
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In the United States the Crisis started on October 15, 1962.
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Cuba was prepared to use nuclear weapons against us if their island was invaded.
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..United States missiles were capable of striking the entire Soviet Union alone.
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This lasted for thirteen days, while the world waited to see if they would be attacked with nuclear weapons.
