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Cold War

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    Berlin Airlift

    A 1940s military operation that supplied west berlin with food and other vital goods by air after the soviet union blockaded the city.
  • Creation of  NATO

    Creation of NATO

    The US, Canada, and several western European nations provided collective security against the Soviet Union.
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    Korean War

    The conflict between the democratic peopleś Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives.
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    Sputnik

    A basketball-sized satellite became the first manmade object to orbit the earth. People in America were scared because they were afraid of the soviets.
  • Creation of  Warsaw Pact

    Creation of Warsaw Pact

    A military alliance between communist countries in eastern Europe to counter the threat of capitalism in Europe.
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    Destruction of Berlin Wall

    A long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the US.
  • Construction of Berlin Wall

    Built by the german democratic republic during the Cold war to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin.
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    Cuban Missile Crisis

    The Soviet Union secretly install missiles in Cuba to launch attacks on U.S. cities.
  • Moon Landing

    Moon Landing

    A man named Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin became the first humans ever to land on the moon.
  • Destruction of  Berlin Wall

    Destruction of Berlin Wall

    Five days after half a million people gathered in east berlin in mass protection, the berlin wall diving communist east Germany from west Germany crumbled.