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It was a military operation that supplied West Berlin with food and other vital goods by air after the Soviet Union blockaded the city
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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. -
The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea. It started when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and rebellions in South Korea.
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The Warsaw Pact served to strengthen Soviet military and political domination of Eastern Europe by providing legal justification for the stationing of Soviet troops in Eastern European states -
It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. Usa was afraid that communism would spread from north to South Vietnam and then the rest of Asia. Usa decided to send money, supplies and military advisers to help the South Vietnamese Government.
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Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union -
The wall was created to separate East Berlin and West Berlin. It was built in order to prevent people from fleeing East Berlin. In many ways it was the perfect symbol of the "Iron Curtain" that separated the democratic western countries and the communist countries of Eastern Europe throughout the Cold War. -
leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense political and military standoff because of the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores
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American astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped off the lunar landing module Eagle, and became the first human to walk on the surface of the moon -
when they destroyed the wall, it started the downfall of the Iron Curtain and one of the series of events that started the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe