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The USSR wanted Berlin all to themselves so they closed down all the highways, railroads and canals to Berlin, trying to keep Britain, France, and the U.S. from providing food and resources to Berlin hoping to drive them out. But instead this caused the U.S., Britain, and France to bring in supplies through the air. -
NATO was created by the U.S. canada, france, britain and other eastern european states, to have protection against the USSR -
warsaw pact is an alliance between the USSR (now russia) and other easten european states as a counterbalance to NATO -
sputnik was a Russian (USSR) satellite. it was launched into a low orbit around earth, and stayed in orbit for 2 months. this caused the sputnik became the first manmade object to be sent into space -
the berlin wall was constructed by the USSR to prevent the population of west germany to move the the east into democratic control -
The Cuban missile crisis was a 13-day standoff between the U.S. and the USSR because of the installation of nuclear armed soviet missiles on cuba. -
this event took place during the cold war and was part of the space race, America became the first country to send people to and from the moon, while Neil Armstrong became the first man to step foot on the moon, this also marked the end of the space race declaring the U.S the winner. -
the berlin wall was destroyed due to government protests in east germany and democratization of other easteren european states