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Yalta Conference
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Cold War Pictorial Timeline: Period 7 Kelsey Robbins
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United States First used Atomic Bomb in War
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Japanese Surrender (V-J Day)
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Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" speech.
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Marshall Plan is announced.
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Berlin Blockade begins.
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NATO ratified.
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Communist Mao Zedong takes control of China.
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USSR explodes first atomic bomb.
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Joseph McCarthy begins Communist witch-hunt.
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Korean War begins.
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Rosenberg executions.
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Korean War ends.
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Vietnam split at 17th parallel.
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Warsaw Pact formed.
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Sputnik launched.
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Cuba taken over by Communist Fidel Castro.
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U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR
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John F. Kennedy elected president.
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Bay of Pigs invasion.
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Construstion of Berlin Wall begins.
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Cuban Missile crisis.
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Saigon, South Vietnam falls to Communism.
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Berlin Wall falls.
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Soviet Empire falls.
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Germany reunited.
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U.S. and Russia sign formal end to the Cold War
