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Yalta Conference
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Period: to
Cold War
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Atomic bomb
United States first uses this bomb in war -
V-J Day
Japanese Surrender -
Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" Speech -
Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan is announced -
Berlin Blockade
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NATO ratified
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Mao Zedong
Communist Mao Zedong takes control of China -
USSR explodes 1st Atomic Bomb
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Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt -
Korean War Begins
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Rosenburg Executions
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Korean War ends
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Vietnam splits at 17th parallel
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Warsaw Pact formed
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Sputnik launched
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Fidel Castro
Communist Fidel Castro takes over Cuba -
U-2 Spy Plane shot down in USSR
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John F. Kennedy elected president
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Bay of Pigs invasion
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Berlin Wall is created
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Saigon, South Vietnam falls to communism
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Berlin Wall falls
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Soviet Empire falls
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Cold War ends
U.S. and Russia sign formal end to Cold War -
Germany Reunited
