What was the Western Allies' response to the Soviet Union's blockade of West Berlin in 1948-1949?

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Key Milestones of the Cold War

Test your knowledge of the major events, crises, and figures that characterized the decades-long ideological conflict known as the Cold War.0 takes

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01Who famously declared in a 1946 speech that an "iron curtain" had descended across the continent of Europe?
02What was the Western Allies' response to the Soviet Union's blockade of West Berlin in 1948-1949?
03The Korean War, a major proxy conflict of the Cold War, began in what year?
04What was the name of the first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, which effectively began the Space Race?
05The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis involved a tense standoff between which two world leaders?
06The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964 gave which U.S. President broad authority to escalate military involvement in Vietnam?
07The military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite states in response to NATO was called the:
08The period of eased tensions between the US and the Soviet Union during the 1970s is known by what French term?
09The Soviet Union's costly and ultimately unsuccessful war, often called the 'Soviet's Vietnam', took place in which country from 1979 to 1989?
10Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of 'openness' and greater freedom of expression in the Soviet Union was known as:
11The Berlin Wall, a primary symbol of the Cold War, fell in what year?
12The Cold War is generally considered to have ended with the dissolution of which country in December 1991?