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Meeting to decide what to do after the war.
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Victory of Europe as Germany surrenders to the Russian army.
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It divided Germany and Austria into four zones, Russian polish border was determinated and Korea was divided. Between Jully 17th and August 2nd
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The United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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The United States droped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki
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The Japanese surendered bringing World War Two to an end.
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Vietnam became an independent republic.
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Churchill delivers his 'Sinews of Peace' speech, with the phrase "an iron curtain has descended on Europe"
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President Ttuman promised to help any country facing a Comunist takeover.
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Was a programme of economic aid offered by the United States to any European country.
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The French,USA and UK divided Germany in 4 parts and they took each power of one part
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Russia responded French,USA and UK plans of dividing Germany and cut all road and rail links to that sector. So people in the Western had no access to food and supplies
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Russia ended the blockade of Berlin
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was formed with members states Belgium,Denmark,France,Iceland,Italy,Luxembourg,the Netherlands,Norway,United Kingdom, United States and Portugal
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The Korean war began when North Korea invaded South Korea
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Joseph Stalin died at the age of 74 and he was replaced by Nikita Khrushchev
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The Korean War ended. North Korea was associated to Russia while South Korea was associated USA
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These documents ended the French war with Vietminh and divided Vietminh into North and South states.The comunist leader was Ho Chi Minh and US was lead by Ngo Dinh Diem
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Was formed by the states of a East Germany,Czechoslovak,Poland,Hungary,Romania
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British and French invaded Egypt to regain the control of the Suez Canal
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USSR Sputnik II carried Laika the dog, the first living creature to go into space
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Russian cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyvich Gagarin became the first human being in space
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A force of Cuban exiles, attempted to invade Cuba and overthrow the Communist government of Fidel Castro.
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Berlin wall built and borders sealed between East and West Germany.
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A US spy plane reported sighting the construction of a Soviet nuclear missile base in Cuba. So they set up a naval blockade and demanded the removal of the missiles.
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JF Kennedy was assassinated while on a visit to Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald was arested for tghe murder, but people think that maybe the guiltys were the comunists or CIA.
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Nikita Krushchev removed from office. He was replaced by Leonid Brezhnev.
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150,000 US troops sent to Vietnam.
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Pact forces entered Czechoslovakia in a bid to stop the reforms known as ‘Prague Spring’ instigated by Alexander Dubcek when he refused to halt his programme
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US launched Apollo 8 ( first manned orbit of the Moon )
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US Apollo 11 landed on the Moon and Neil Armstrong became the first man on the Moon
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President Richard Nixon ordered US troops to go to Cambodia
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Russia, USA, Britain and France reconfirmed the rights and responsibilities of those countries with regard to Berlin
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Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty signed between the US and USSR
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The Paris Peace Accords ended American involvement in Vietnam.
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Joint space venture between USA and USSR heralded as an end to the 'space'.
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The Khmer Rouge attacked and took control of Cambodia. Killing all kind of intelectuals in the genocide known as ¨killing fields¨
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North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam. The capture of Saigon by the North led to the whole country becoming Communist.
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Jimmy Carter became the 39th President of the United States.
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Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan.
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Some countries and USA boycotted the summer Olympics held in Moscow in protest at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
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Russia and 13 allied countries boycotted the summer Olympics held in Los Angeles retaliation for the US boycott of 1980
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Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of Soviet Union.
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An explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine remains the nuclear disaster in history.
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Gorbachev announced that he would restructure the economy and advocated free elections and ending the arms race.
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The last Soviet troops left Afghanistan
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Anti Communist protests in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China were crushed government. The death count is unknown.
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The Berlin wall was torn down.
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The Velvet Revolution, also knowun as the Gentle Revolution, was a series of protests in Czechoslovakia that led to the Communist government.
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This meeting between Mikhail Gorbachov and George Bush reversed much of the provisions of the Yalta Conference 1945. Beginning the end of Cold War
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East and West Germany were reunited as one country
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The Strategic Arms Reduction treaty was signed between Russia and the US
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The Warsaw Pact which allied Communist countries was ended
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Mikhail Gorbachev resigned. The hammer and the sickle flag on the Kremlin was lowered
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Russia recognised the end of the Soviet Union
