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Instead of causing WW3, Truman ordered a airlift of supplies into West Berlin.
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The prospect of Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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Began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded South Korea.
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A political and military alliance between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries.
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The capture of Saigon by the North Vietnamese Army in April 1975 marked the end of the war, and North and South Vietnam were reunified the following year.
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The first artificial satellite launched by the Soviet Union.
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West Berlin was a geographical loophole through which thousands of East Germans fled to the democratic West. In response, the Communist East German authorities built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin.
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The moment when the United States and the Soviet Union came closest to nuclear conflict.
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The moon landing was when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon and planted the American Flag.
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East Berlin’s communist party announced starting at midnight that day, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.
