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The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied air bases in western Germany. when Soviet forces lifted the blockade on land access to western Berlin
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
The Korean War began when North Korean troops pushed into South Korea on june 25,1950 and it lasted until 1953
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a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania (Albania withdrew in 1968). -
The Vietnam War pitted communist North Vietnam and the Viet Cong against South Vietnam and the United States. The war ended when U.S. forces withdrew in 1973 and Vietnam unified under Communist control two years later.
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the world's first artificial satellite. ... It had a diameter of 22 inches and weighed 184 pounds and circled Earth once every hour and 36 minutes. this started the space race -
The Berlin Wall was built by the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin, which was controlled by the major Western Allies -
dangerous confrontation that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba.
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On July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin (1930-) became the first humans ever to land on the moon. About six-and-a-half hours later, Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon. As he took his first step, Armstrong famously said, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." -
the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. He said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.
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