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The Big Three met, The Yalta Conference which turned to be the beginning of the Cold War.
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United States drops atomic bomb, "little boy" on Hiroshima.
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United States drops atomic bomb, "Fatman" on Nagasaki.
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Japanese surrender ending World War 2.
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Winston Churchill delivers Iron Curtain speech.
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President Truman signs the Economic Recovery Act later known as Marshall Plan. This made the U.S. help with postwar damage in recovery for Europe economically.
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Soviet Union wanted Berlin so they closed all highways, railroads and canals from western Germany into western Berlin.
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Soviet Union tests first atomic bomb.
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Warsaw pact created, this putting Soviet Union in command of armed forces in a defence agreement with seven of its European satellites.
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Vietnam war begins
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Soviet Union launches the world’s first artificial satellite.
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Launched an invasion of Cuba.
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A wall is built between east and west Berlin.
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Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact members invaded Czechoslovakia to halt reforms.
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President Nixon extends Vietnam war to Cambodia.
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North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam which falls to Communist forces.
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East German Communists announced their citizens could cross and they certainly did with the falling of the Berlin wall.
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Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania decline of the Soviet empire.
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Fall of the Soviet Union and ending of the Cold War.
