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Period: to
Cold War
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Yalta Conference
Agreement to temporary divide Germany -
A-Bomb
U.S. uses A-bomb first in war -
V-J Day
Japan surrenders -
Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill delivers Iron Curtain speech -
Marshall Plan
Marshall plan is announced -
Berlin Blockade
Berlin Blockade begins, USSR blocks U.S. from supplying Berlin -
NATO
NATO ratified -
Communist China
Communist Mao Zedong takes control over China -
USSR tests atomic bomb
USSR tests their first atomic bomb -
Communist Witch-Hunt
Joesph McCarthy begins a Communist witch-hunt to win reelection as senator -
Korean War
Korean War begins -
Rosenburg Exectutions
Julius and Ethel Rosenburg are executed on charges of espionage -
Korean War Ends
Korean War ends -
Vietnam Seperated
Vietnam is split at the 17th parallel -
Warsaw Pact
Warsaw Pact is formed -
Sputnik
USSR launches Sputnik -
Communist Cuba
Cuba is taken over by Communist leader Fidel Castro -
U-2 Incident
U-2 plane shot down over USSR -
John F. Kennedy President
John F. Kennedy is elected President -
Bay of Pigs
U.S. failed at overthrowing Fidel Castro in Cuba -
Berlin Wall
Construction for the Berlin Wall begins, splitting East Berlin and West Berlin -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Confrontation between USSR/Cuba and U.S. because of missile bases in Cuba -
Communism in South Vietnam
Saigon, South Vietnam falls to communism -
Berlin Wall Falls
Berlin Wall is torn down, reuniting East Berliners and West Berliners; alsoDavid Hasselhoff sings -
USSR falls
Soviet Union falls -
Germany Reunited
Berlin is unified as one city and West Germany and East Germany join together -
Cold War Ends
U.S. and Russia sign formal end to Cold War
