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The United States and the United Kingdom sent food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Was created to provide security against the Soviet Union. It was created by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations.
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The Creation of Warsaw Pact was a political and military allianced between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries.
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Earth´s first satellite. Starting to fight war in space.
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The arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the moon.
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The Communist government of the German Democratic Republic built a wall out of concrete and barb wire between East and West Berlin.
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The political changes in Eastern Europe put pressure on the East German government so they would lower the regulations on traveling to West Germany.
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U.S. and Soviet Union had a political and military standoff over nuclear-armed Soviet missiles in Cuba.
