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The Yalta Conference was when Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt met to discuss Europe's post war organization.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt suffers a stroke on vacation
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Truman tells Stalin the US has nuclear weapons
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Truman has the military use an atomic bomb for the first time on the city of Hiroshima in Japan
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Truman ordered the US military to drop an atomic bomb for the second and last time on the city of Nagasaki in Japan in order to end World War II
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Japanese surrender to General Douglas MacArthur on the USS Missouri
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Winston Churchill warns the Iron Curtain going down across Europe. The Iron Curtain was was the conflict between the Soviet Union blocking itself from the non-Soviet Union controlled areas
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The Phillippines gained independence from the United States
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Bernard Baruch described the relations between the soviet union and the united states as the "Cold War"
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The Marshall Plan was signed by Truman and it was to give Europe 12.4 billion dollars to help their enconomy
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was founded by a group of cuntries, some of which include, United States, Denmark, Canada, Italy and others in order to resist communist expansion
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Stalin dies, which creates a power struggle to succed him
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The Warsaw PAct was founded by Eastern European Countries and the Soviet Union it is the communist opposite to NATO
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Sputnik, a Russian satellite is launched into space
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An invasion of Cuba backed by the CIA ends in failure, and strengthed Castro's administration
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The Berlin Wall is built by the soviets to cut off West Berlin from East Germany, the wanted to prevent emigration and defection that marked east germany
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The United States and their allies boycotted the olympics in Moscow
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Soviets cease all operations
