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Yalta Conference
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Period: to
Cold War
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US uses atomic bomb in war
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V-J Day
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Churchill gives "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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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 splits at 17th Parallel
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Warsaw Pact formed
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Cuba goes Communist: Fidel Castro
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Sputnik Launched
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U-2 Spy plane shot down
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JFK elected
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Bay of Pigs invasion
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Construction of Berlin wall begins
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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South Vietnam Falls to Comm.
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Berlin Wall Falls
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Soviet Empire falls
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Germany Reunited
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US and Russia sign formal end to Cold War
