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Yalta Confrence
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Period: to
Cold War
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USA First used Atomic bomb in war
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V-J day
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Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain Speech"
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Marshall Plan is announced
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Berlin Blockade Begins
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Nato ratified
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Communist Mao Zedong takes control of China
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USSR explodes first atomic bomb
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Joseph McCarthy begins communist witch-hunt
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Korean War begins
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Rosenburg executions
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korean war ends
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Vietnam Split at 17th parallel
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Warsaw pact formed
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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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Saigon, south of 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
