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Cold War

By ChinSovaNN270
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    Yalta Conference
    World War II ends in Europe.
    U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
    Potsdam Conference - Truman - Stalin and British divide up Europe

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    First East European Communist government set up in Albania.
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    Communists seize power in Poland.
    Truman Doctrine announced.

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    Berlin Airlift begins (ends May 19, 1949)
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    North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established.
    Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb.
    Communists win Chinese Civil War.

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    U.S. and other U.N. members fight North Korean forces. (the Korean War ends July 27, 1953)

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    U.S. sponsored coup overthrows Iranian government.

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    U.S. sponsored coup overthrows Guatemalan government.
    Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) formed.
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    Warsaw Pact formed. First Summit Meeting between President Dwight Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev.

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    Red Army crushes the Hungarian Revolution.
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    Soviets launch first man‑made satellite.

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    Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba, installs Communist government.
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    Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. East Germany builds Berlin Wall.

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    Sino‑Soviet Conflict begins.
    Cuban Missile Crisis.

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    China explodes its first atomic bomb.

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    U.S. sends troops to the Dominican Republic.
    U.S. commits combat troops to South Vietnam.

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    Soviet Red Army crushes Czech Uprising.
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    President Richard Nixon visits China.

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    U.S. supported coup overthrows Chilean government.
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    South Vietnam falls to Communist forces.
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    Soviet and Cuban forces help install Communist government in Angola.

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    U.S. and China establish diplomatic relations.
    Soviet Red Army invades Afghanistan

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    Polish shipyard workers strike, Solidarity Union formed.
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    U.S. invades Grenada.

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    Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union, the following year he declares glasnost and perestroika.
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    Led by university students, over one million Chinese in Tiananmen Square demand reforms by
    the Chinese Communist government.
    Solidarity forms the first post-war non-Communist government in Poland
    Hungary declares a non-Communist government.
    East Germany allows unrestricted migration to West Germany.
    Berlin Wall is demolished.

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    George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev agree to the reunification of Germany in 1994
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    Hard-line Communists stage unsuccessful coup against Mikhail Gorbachev.
    The Soviet Union is abolished. Boris Yeltsin becomes President of Russia.