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Allied forces invaded France on the beach shores of Normandy
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President Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met in Yalta in the soviet union to discuss what would happen to Germany after the war
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President Truman, Churchill, and Stalin meet to discuss Japan. This meeting ended up failing and leading to the start of the Cold War
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The United States drops a Nuclear bomb on Hiroshima
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The United States drop a Nuclear bomb on Nagasaki
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The United Nations is established
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the US will give aid to postwar Europe
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The Soviet Union begins a blockade at the Berlin wall
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the Vietnam War begins
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The Korean War begins
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22nd Amendment ratified, only allowing a president two terms