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    Berlin Airlift

    Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied air bases in western Germany.
  • Creation of NATO

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere.
  • Creation of Warsaw Pact

    a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe
  • sputnik

    world's first artificial spacecraft. about the size of a beach ball and started a great space race
  • Destruction of Berlin Wall

    The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep so-called Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West.
  • Construction of Berlin Wall

    Communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin.
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    Cuban Missile Crisis

    over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba,
  • Moon landing

    The American effort to send astronauts to the moon had its origins in an appeal President Kennedy made to a special joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961: "I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth."