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  Military that brought food and other needed goods into west Berlin
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  North Atlantic treaty organization
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  North Korea and South Korea went to war
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  A military alliance of Communist nations in Eastern Europe
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  France claimed vietnam as a colony and the communist forces attacked it
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  Soviet Union launched a artificial satellite called sputnik
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  Built early years of the cold war. It circled West Berlin.
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  Confrontation between U.S. and the Soviet Union over the presence of missile sites in Cuba
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  The U.S. was competing against the Soviet Union so we wanted to put a man on the moon to basically win the race around space
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  Germans wanted in Berlin so they brought hammers and picks and destroyed the Berlin Wall