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Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water accesses to allied controlled areas of Berlin. The U.S. and U.K. airlifted food and fuel to berlin. It was one of the first international crisis of the cold war. -
They wanted to deter soviet expansionism. They also wanted to encourage European political integration. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the U.S. entered into outside of the western hemisphere. -
It was a mutual defense organization. This put the soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. They wanted to reinforce communist dominance in eastern Europe. -
Sputnik was the first artificial earth satellite. It also began the space age. The longest it orbited was 3 weeks then the batteries ran out. -
They wanted to prevent its population from escaping soviet- controlled East and West Berlin. They used a makeshift barbed wire and concrete block wall. -
The Cuban missile crisis is also known as the October crisis of 1962. It was a 35 day confrontation between the U.S. and the soviet union. It all started because the soviet union was secretly installing missiles in cuba to attack the U.S. -
A moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft. Their purpose was to perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth. Neil Armstrong was the first human to walk on the moon. -
This was a pivotal event in world history that caused the falling of the iron curtain. It also started the fall of communism in eastern and central Europe. The wall was destroyed because of the anti government protest in east Germany and the democratization of the eastern and central European states.