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In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into west Berlin, The united states begins a massive airlift of food, water ad medicine to the citizens of the besieged city
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To secure peace in Europe, to promote cooperation among its members and to guard their freedom. -
North Korea attacked south Korea. Joseph Stalin had ordered the invasion as the first step in his plan for world conquest
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It was created in reaction to the interrogation of West Germany into the North Atlantic Treaty organization (NATO) in 1955 as per the London and Paris conferences of 1954. -
Long divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of north vietnam against south Vietnam and its principal ally, The United states. They were preventing a communist takeover.
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The USSR launched Sputnik (the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth) The satellite was launched on a huge rocket and orbited Earth at 18000 miles per hour for three months. -
constructed by the German Democratic Republic. Completely cut off west berlin from surroEast Germany -
An American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba.
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Neil Armstrong and Edwin ‘buzz” aldrin became the first beings to land on the moon -
The germans tore down the barriers. The Head of East German Communist Partys announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased.
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