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The United States drops atomic bomb on Japan.
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"Sinews of Peace" Iron Curtain Speech by Winston Churchil talks about an iro curtain decending on Europe. This divides Europe even more.
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General of the Army George C. Marshall, US Secretary of State announces a plan for economic rehabilitation of Europe. Speech led to the European Recovery Programme. Popularly known as the Marshall Plan. Ultimately the goal was that if governments were stable it would stop the spread of communism.
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The Brussels Treaty - a fifty year agreement of economic, social and cultural collaboration and collective self-defence signed by Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands and United Kingdom. The goal of the treaty was to show that western European states could cooperate, thus encouraging the United States to play a role in the security of western Europe.
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Soviet forces in the Eastern Zone of Germany stopped all rail and road passenger and freight traffic between the British, US and French Zones of Berlin and the corresponding Allied Zones in western Germany. This is the beginning of the Berlin Blockaid
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The North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington by Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States against the Soviet Union
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The Soviet Union tests it's first Atomic Bomb.
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Communist Mao Zedong takes control of China and establishes the People's Republic of China.
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President Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb
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The Korean War begins with the Soviets supporting North Korea and the United States siding with South Korea.
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The KGB is established in the Soviet Union
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By way of reply to accession of Federal Republic of Germany to NATO the USSR concludes the Warsaw Pact with its European satellites - Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania.
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First Soviet artificial satellite Sputnik launched. This is the beginning of the space race.
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United States launches 'Explorer 1' satellite.
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United States cuts ties with Cuba because Cuba is openly siding with USSR
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Soviet Major Yuri Gagarin is first man to orbit earth in space.
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CIA starts invasion of Cuba. This is the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Police and army units of the German Democratic Republic seal off the Eastern sector of Berlin. Construction of the Berlin Wall begins two days later
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Cuban Missile Crisis ends with USSR not send missiles to Cuba and US removing them from Turkey. US continues to blockaid Cuba
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United States aircraft attack North Vietnam for first time following an attack on US base at Pleiki
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United States lands man on the moon for the first time. The United States wins the space race and complete President Kennedy's goal of making it to the moon before the end of the decade.
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The US official withdraws troops from Vietnam.
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United States invades Grenada.
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Reykjavik Summit between Reagan and Gorbachev proposes a 50% cut in long-range missiles.
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East Germany announces the opening of its borders including the Berlin Wall and the Berlin Wall begins to come down.
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The Soviet Union is no more.
