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Committee comprised largely of right-wing conservatives, HUAC public humiliated prominent liberals.
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Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt meet in Potsdam to discuss what the post world war two world will look like.
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the Enola Gay drops the very first atomic weapon.
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the Central Intelligence Agency is founded to see what the soviets are up to.
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founding of NATO
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the soviets match our nuclear status much sooner than we expected.
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the Soviet union make an alliance with its satalite countries.
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Russia is the first into space with Sputnik, the hollowed out warhead with a beeper inside.
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the U.S. respondes in the space race by founding the National Areonautics and Space Adiministration.
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American photographic reconnaissance aircraft, a Lockheed U-2, was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot, Gary Powers, was taken prisoner.
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American plan to overthrow Castro. It didn't work.
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the Berlin Wall is created to seperate east from west.
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U.S.S.R. gives Cuba atomic weapons.
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Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon.
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Kent Satae war protesters were fired upon by U.S. armed forces.
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After about 38 years east and west berlin are one again.
