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The agreement to temporarily divide Germany.
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United States first used the atomic bomb in the war.
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It was the day the Japanese surrendered.
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The day the Japanese surrendered.
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Winston Churchill delivers the "Iron Curtain" speech.
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The Marshall Plan was announced to rebuild dying postwar Europe.
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The Marshall Plan was announced, aid for post war Europe.
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The Berlin Blockade began, which was the first serious crisis of the Cold War.
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The NATO was ratified. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was a treay that involved 12 nations including UK.
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The communist, Mao Zedong, takes control of China.
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U.S.S.R explodes the first atomic bomb.
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Joesph McCarthy begins Communist witch-hunt.
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On this date the Korean War began.
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The Rsoenberg's execution for lying about being communists.
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On this date was when the Korean War ended and many were unsure of you had won or who had lost.
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Vietnam split at the 17th parallel.
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The Warsaw Pact was formed between a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states.
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The satelitte, Sputnik, was launched into space.
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Cuba was taken over by the Communist Fidel Castro.
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The U-2 spy plane was shot down over the U.S.S.R and man was captured.
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John F. Kennedy was elected president of the United States.
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On this date the Bay of Pigs invasion occured, the invasion was an unsuccessful attack made by the United States on the Cuban government.
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The construction of the Berlin Wall began
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to a nuclear war.
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North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam which falls to Communist forces.
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The Berliners celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall unserperating Western and Eastern Germany.
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Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania, decline of the Soviet empire.
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This date was the date Germany had reunited.
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End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends.
