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It was in a sense the first battle of the Cold War, It was when western countries delivered much needed food and supplies to the city of Berlin through the air because all other routes were blocked by the Soviet Union. -
The United States, Canada, and several Western European nations created NATO to provide collective security against the USSR. -
It was the first time the two superpowers had fought a proxy war in a third country which was fought because of both countries trying to stop the other's ideology from spreading.
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The military alliance of European communist states meant to counter NATO. -
The war was fought to prevent communism from overtaking South Vietnam seeing as China and North Vietnam were already communists. The U.S. allied with South Vietnam to help prevent this.
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A period of public fear and anxiety in Western nations about a possible technological gap between the United States and the USSR caused by the launch of Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite. -
It was built to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin. -
A direct dangerous conflict between the U.S. and the USSR, it was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
A race to land a man on the moon before the USSR as a sort of space race after the USSR’s first satellite launch (Sputnik). -
As the Cold War began to come slowly to an end the German people destroyed the Berlin Wall to mark the end of communist ruling in Germany.