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    Berlin Airlift

    The Soviet forces were blockaded by railroad and water access to Allied-controlled the areas of Berlin and the United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel from Berlin
  • Creation of NATO

    The United States, Canada, and several Western European nations against the Soviet Union and NATO was the first peacetime military alliance
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    Moon landing

    America's great lunar adventure was really about the Cold War against the Soviet Union and just about as quickly as WWII ended and that when the Cold War began.
  • Creation of Warsaw Pact

    by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states are in Eastern Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania
  • Sputnik

    The period was a public fear and anxiety in the Western nations and Soviet Union caused by the Soviets launch the first Sputnik
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    Construction of Berlin Wall

    Cold War to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin and It was divided the city of Berlin into two physically
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    Cuban Missile Crisis

    The direct conflict was a dangerous confrontation and when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict
    Oct 16, 1962 – Oct 28, 1962
  • Destruction of Berlin Wall

    five days later half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest and East German leaders had tried to calm mounting protests by loosening the borders and making travel easier for East Germans.