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Soviet forces blockaded rail,road, and water access to Allied-control areas of Berlin.The US and the UK responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied air bases in Western Germany. -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. -
The Korean war began on June 25, 1950, when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People's Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. -
The Warsaw Treaty organizations (also known as the Warsaw pact) was a political and a military alliance established in 1955 between the soviet union and several other Eastern European countries. -
The war was fought between communist North Vietnam, Backed by the Soviet Union and China, and South Vietnam, Supported by the United States. -
The soviet union launched the earth's first artificial satellite (Sputnik-1).It was the first man-made object to orbit earth.
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On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifaschistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin. -
The soviet union began to secretly install missiles in Cuba to launch attacks on the U.S. cities. -
On July 30, 1969, commander Neil Armstrong became the first person to step on the moon's surface. -
East German soldiers laid down more than 30 miles of barbed wire barrier through the heart of Berlin.East Berlin citizens were forbidden to pass into west Berlin.