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FDR, Stalin, and Churchill met, the start of the Cold War -
The United States drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan.
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Stalin gives a speech on communism and capitalism
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Truman declares the active role in the Greek Civil War
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/truman-doctrine#:~:text=With%20the%20Truman%20Doctrine%2C%20President,external%20or%20internal%20authoritarian%20forces.&text=Truman%20asked%20Congress%20to%20support%20the%20Greek%20Government%20against%20the%20Communists. -
Communists take over Czechoslovakia -
Russia tested its first atomic bomb -
McCarthy starts his hunt to get rid of Communist people in the United States
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USSR set Sputnik 1 into an orbit in space
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A 13-day military standoff between the US and the Soviet Union
https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cuban-missile-crisis -
Attack all forces to prevent further aggression into the United States, initiated by Lyndon B. Johnson
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Apollo 11 successfully lands on the moon -
North Vietnam beats South Vietnam which causes them to fall to communist forces.
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The Berlin Wall falls down and East Germany allows migration to West Germany.
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The communist governments fall in Bulgaria, Rumania, and Czechoslovakia. -
The Soviet Union falls and it marks the end of the Cold War