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  The Soviet Union Blocked the western allies and Berlin. Allies used aircraft to get supplies to Berlin
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  12 western nation made a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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  A war between North and South Korea with clashes along the border of the 2 countries.
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  A treaty signed to establish an alliance with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
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  The Vietnam resistance against America.
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  Russia launches the first satellite
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  Built to keep out Germans, The wall was built on the western side of Berlin overnight.
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  A missle crisis involving the united states and soviet union bombs detonated in Cuba
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  The arrival of a spacecraft on the moon. The first human to be on the moon
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  people from west and east Berlin would pick away at the wall