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Yalta Conference
Agreement to temporarily divide Germany -
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COLD WAR
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U.S. first used atomic bomb
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V-J Day
Japanese surrender -
Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" speech
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Marshall Plan
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Berlin Blockade begins
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NATO ratified
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USSR explodes atomic bomb first
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Mao Zedong takes over China
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Joseph McCarthy begins Communist witch-hunt in government
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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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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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Construction of Berlin Wall begins
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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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
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Warsaw Pact formed
