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Agreement to temporary divide Germany
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U.S. uses A-bomb first in war
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Japan surrenders
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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, USSR blocks U.S. from supplying Berlin
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NATO ratified
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Communist Mao Zedong takes control over China
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USSR tests their first atomic bomb
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Joesph McCarthy begins a Communist witch-hunt to win reelection as senator
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Korean War begins
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Julius and Ethel Rosenburg are executed on charges of espionage
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Korean War ends
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Vietnam is split at the 17th parallel
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Warsaw Pact is formed
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USSR launches Sputnik
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Cuba is taken over by Communist leader Fidel Castro
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U-2 plane shot down over USSR
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John F. Kennedy is elected President
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U.S. failed at overthrowing Fidel Castro in Cuba
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Construction for the Berlin Wall begins, splitting East Berlin and West Berlin
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Confrontation between USSR/Cuba and U.S. because of missile bases in Cuba
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Saigon, South Vietnam falls to communism
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Berlin Wall is torn down, reuniting East Berliners and West Berliners; alsoDavid Hasselhoff sings
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Soviet Union falls
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Berlin is unified as one city and West Germany and East Germany join together
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U.S. and Russia sign formal end to Cold War
