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Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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Berlin Airlift
Berlin Blockade and Airlift• Was the historic effort by which France, the United Kingdom, and the United States supplied West Berlin entirely by air during a Soviet blockade • It brought in food, coal, petroleum, and other supplies to more than 2 million people in West Berlin
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[The Korean War](Korean War)
• The first war in which the United Nations played a military role
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Vietnam War Starts
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTOHvSkWVBw&feature=channel_video_title](Vietnam War)· The Vietnam War was a Cold War military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
· This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the U.S. and other anti-communist nations.
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Sputnik
Sputnik· The Sputnik program, which is translated as 'companion' or 'satellite', is the commonly known name of a group of various robotic spacecraft missions launched by the Soviet Union
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Berlin Wall
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Berlin Wall
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis· The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation among the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States in October 1962, during the Cold War.
· In September 1962, after some unsuccessful operations by the U.S. to overthrow the Cuban regime (Bay of Pigs, Operation Mongoose), the Cuban and Soviet governments began to surreptitiously build bases in Cuba for a number of medium-range and intermediate-range ballistic nuclear missiles (MRBMs and IRBMs) with the ability to strike most of the continental Unite -
Chinese Cultural Revolution
• Mao Zedong took over China and made it communist
• Eliminated all Chinese culture
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1st Man To The Moon
· American aviator and a former astronaut, test pilot, aerospace engineer, university professor, and United States Naval Aviator
· Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was in the United States Navy
· After the Korean war, he served as a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station, now known as the Dryden Flight Research Center, where he flew over 900 flights in a variety of aircraft. As a research pilot, Armstrong served as project pilot on -
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Dissolution of the Soviet Union· A process of systematic disintegration, which occurred in its economy, social structure and political structure
· It resulted in the destruction of the Soviet Federal Government ("the Union center") and independence of the USSR's republic on December 26, 1991
· Weakening of the Soviet government, which led to disintegration and took place from about January 19, 1990 to December 31, 1991, caused the process
