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Soviet Union cuts off Western Allies’ railway, roads, and canals to Berlin. They offer to take away the blockade if they withdrew the Deutsche mark from West Berlin.
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NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization and was made up of the U.S. and 11 other Western nations against the spread of communism.
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The first military action of the Cold War. It was a war against the forces of international communism.
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Soviet Union establishes a political and military between them and several Eastern European countries.
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The United States was allied with South Vietnam to fight against North Vietnam’s Communism. In the end, the South prevailed and reunited North and South Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, an artificial satellite.
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In two weeks, the East German army, police force and volunteer construction workers built a wall that was made with barbed wire and concrete. It divided Berlin in half, the West and the East.
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Announced that there were missiles present and explained why he enacted a naval blockade around Cuba.
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Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon.
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The East Berlin’s Communist Party announced that they were free to cross the border between East and West Berlin.
