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Adolf Hitler commits suicide in German bunker
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Period: to
1945-1992
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Germany surrenders to Allies
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The USA drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
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USSR enters the war against Japan
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Japan surrenders, ending World War 2
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Winston Churchill delivers 'Iron Curtain' speech
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Truman Doctrine speech made
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Marshall plan announced
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The Berlin blockage begins
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The Berlin blockade ends
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USSR explodes its first atomic bomb
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Korean War begins
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Death of Joseph Stalin
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Korean war ends
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Warsaw pact is created
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USSR launches Sputnik into Earth orbit, initiating the space race.
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Khrushchev demands U.S leave Berlin
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John F. Kennedy is elected President of the United States
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USSR astronaut Gagarin is the first to orbit Earth
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Berlin boarder closed
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Construction of the Berlin wall begins
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Nuclear war is narrowly avoided -
President John F. Kennedy assassinated
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Gulf of Tonkin incident - start of the Vietnam War
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China detonates its first atomic bomb
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Richard Nixon is elected as President
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USA lands first man on the moon - wins space race
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Break in at the Watergate office complex, which resulted in the watergate scandal.
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End of the U.S military draft
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Eygpt and Syria attack Israel - Eygpt requests Soviet aid
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Richard Nixon resigns
the only president in U.S history to do so -
Ronald Regan elected President
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Mikhail Gorbachev ascends to power in USSR
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Gorbachev ends economic aid to Soviet satellities
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Regan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe
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Regan and Gorbachev agree to remove all medium and short-range missiles from Europe by signing a treaty
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Hungary becomes indepedent
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China puts down protests for a democracy
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Poland becomes independant
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The Berlin wall falls
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Communist governments in Czechoslovakis, Bulgaria and Romania fall
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Boris Yeltskin elected to presidency of Russia
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East Germany and West Germany united
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Warsaw pact ends
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USSR dissolves, ending the Cold War