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• 1945: World War II Ends and the Cold War Begins
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• March 1946: Winston Churchill delivers the Iron Curtain Speech
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• May 1948: US and Britain break the Soviet blockade of West Berlin with the Berlin Airlift
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• 1949: North Atlantic Treaty Organization is formed
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• 1950 to 1953: Korean War
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• 1954: Vietnam War Begins
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• 1955: Warsaw Pact is formed
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• 1961: US is defeated and humiliated at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba
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• August 1961: Berlin Wall is Built
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• October 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
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• 1974: Vietnam War is over
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• November 1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall
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• October 1990: Germany is reunited
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• December 1991: Soviet Union Collapses (Establishment of the Russian Federation)
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Short video of Cold War