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the Berlin airlift was the relief of the Berline blockade -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations -
The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea -
The Soviet Union formed this alliance as a counterbalance to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization -
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia -
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union -
the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall -
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 35-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union -
The USA landed on the moon for the first time -
The fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 was a pivotal event in world history that marked the falling of the Iron Curtain