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NATO was created and led by the U.S. during the Cold War. NATO was formed to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO included the U.S., Canada, and several Western European Nations. -
The Berlin Airlift was a massive airlift for food, water, and medicine to the people of the besieged city. This started because the Soviet Union blocked land routes into West Berlin. American planes supplied and sustained over 2 million people in West Berlin. -
The Korean War was a civil conflict between superpowers clashing over communism and democracy. The Korean War became known as proxy war. The war reached international proportions when North Korea advised the Soviet Union to invade South Korea.
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The Warsaw Pact was a political and military alliance between the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe countries. The creation of the Warsaw Pact was a reaction to the formation of NATO led by the U.S. It was designed to balance the power of NATO. -
There were 3 main causes of the Vietnam War and they were the spread of communism during the cold war, American containment, and European imperialism in Vietnam. The U.S. entered the Vietnam War as an attempt to prevent the spread of communism. The Vietcong made a system of tunnels, booby-traps and jungle cover to defeat the U.S. and because of those tactics they were hard to find and hard to defeat.
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Sputnik was an artificial satellite that the Soviet Union launched. When the launch was successful it shocked experts and citizens of the U.S. who hoped to achieve this advancement first. It orbited for three weeks before the batteries ran out. -
East Germany built the Berlin Wall to seal off entry points from Eastern Berlin into Western Berlin. It took 2 weeks to build the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall is also known as an “Iron Curtain” -
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. This was a time in the cold war when two superpowers came very close to nuclear conflict. This happened because the Soviet Union was secretly installing missiles in Cuba to attack the U.S. -
On this day 2 men became the first two humans to step foot on the moon. The purpose was to perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth. This was a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy. -
The Berlin Wall was destroyed because of anti-government protest in East Germanyand the democratization of eastern and central European states. 5 days after the mass protest of half a million people the wall fell. East German leaders didn’t want to destroy