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This was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
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Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower won a landslide victory over Democrat Adlai Stevenson
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This was when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball
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The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between Iran and the United States.
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President Ronald Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C.
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The hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin
