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the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.was made to provide security against the soviet union.NATO was made with all countries being a democracy. made during the cold war as a defense of the warsaw pact which was made as a response to NATO. -
this is when the USSR blocked railroads and water access to allied-controlled areas of berlin. So the allies airdropped food and fuel. the allies(Great Britain, U.S.) did this from airfields in West Germany. -
the war was fought between north and south Korea.was fought over if Korea would be a democracy or communist. the war was during the cold when nuclear war was looming over people's heads.
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this was the response to NATO in 1955. the Warsaw pact was mainly led by the USSR with seven other satellite states. this was a mutual defense much like NATO if one of the states in the warsaw pact are attacked that all jump in to help the country in the warsaw pact. -
the Vietnam war was fought over ideology between the communist north and the democratic south of Vietnam. the USSR provided aid to the north and the U.S. provided help to the south. the Vietnam war did not go well for the U.S. because of a lack of knowledge and because the Vietnamese knew the land much better.
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Sputnik was the first satellite set into space by the soviet union. the maximum height it reached was 359 miles. the max speed was 18020 mph. -
the berlin wall was put up by the soviet union. called the iron curtain put up to stop people from the east not going into the west. put during the cold war when tensions were high between the U.S. and the USSR. -
this was a 35-day confrontation between the U.S. and the USSR. when the USSR moved missiles into Cuba as a response to the U.S. moving missiles into the turkey. During this time America tried to invade Cuba but failed like the bay of pigs invasion. -
this was when the U.S. sent 3 people to the moon(Neil Armstrong, buzz aldrin, Michal collins). the 3 men on the moon were there for 21 hours and 36 minutes. Neil Armstrong was the first man to step on the moon and when he said one small step for man one giant leap for mankind. -
the berlin wall is what divided east and west Germany. this was due to ideology. the wall was destroyed when east german border troops began dismantling the wall.