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Yalta ConferenceThe dividing up of Germany
The formation of the United Nations
German war reparations
The entry of Soviet forces into the Far-Eastern front (Japan)
The final, and most difficult issue, the future of Poland -
The US drops the bomb on Japan to end the war.
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Wistson Churchill give the Iron Curtain speech
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North Atlanitic Treaty Organaization
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The Soviet Union explode their first Atomic bomb
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Mao Zedong takes control of china
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Joe McCarthy begins the hunt for communists in America
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US enters war against N. Korea in defense of democracy.
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KGB formed, this is the agency of intell and secert policing.
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Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance in eastern communist Europe
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The Space Race
The first orbiting satellite in the world from the Soviet Union. At this time the USSR is more advanced than the US -
Fiedel Castro creates a communist regime in Cuba
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bay of Pigs
American lead Cuban exiles attempt to takeover CUba but fail -
Boarder between american and soviet sectors of berlin closed
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Cuban Missle Crisis
Nuclear weapon deploment centers found in Cuba -
150,000 troops sent to Veitnam
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US spy plane shot down over sviet territory.
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Apollo 13 lands on the moon
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Cease fire in Vietnam between US and N. Vietnam
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Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
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44 Americans in the US embassy held capitve in Iran for 444 days
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Nicknamed star wars, this was to protect US from Russin nukes by using satlights that would shoot them down
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The Berlin Wall is brought down, uniteing east and west berlin.
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The treaty system of USSR is no more
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Cold war ends, USSR is split into many differnt nations.
