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Yalta Conference
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United States 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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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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Rosenberg executions
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Korean War ends
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Vietnam splits at 17th parallel
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Warsaw Pact forms
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Sputnik launched
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communist Fidel Castro takes over Cuba
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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 starts
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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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Germany reunited
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U.S. and Russia sign formal end to Cold War
