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The United States drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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Defeat of Germany and Japan.
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Germany controlled Western bloc and the Soviet Union controlled the Eastern bloc of Europe.
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The announce of the Truman Doctrine and Marshall plan
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Policy tensions grew among USSR and USA
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Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan (USA would give resources to other countries so they wouldn’t ally the USSR)
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Germany is divided into 2 main regions, one with Soviet and the other one with USA.
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To avoid invasion and conflict, allies sent supplies through air.
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Formation of NATO. The United States and 11 other Western nations.
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North (communism) invaded South (capitalism)
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The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe.
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South Vietnam was an ally of the US and North Vietnam was an ally of the USSR.
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The success of the USSR launching Sputnik scared the Americans.
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USA made its own spaceship launching
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Is launched into orbit to photograph the Earth.
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Closest time the world ever came to a Nuclear War.
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The US destroyer Maddox exchanged shots with North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin.
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Apollo 11 lands on the moon. First Lunar landing mission
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Kept Germans from going to the West for 28 years.
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Communism became weaker and the Wall falled.
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The USSR was formally dissolved by declaration of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
