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Decision of the post war status of Germany
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US President Harry S. Truman informs Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin that the United States has nuclear weapons
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Use of an atomic weapon against the Japanese city of Hiroshima
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Use of an atomic weapon against the Japanese city of Nagasaki
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He provides proof to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police of a Soviet spy ring operating in Canada and other western countries.
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Chinese Civil War resumed between Communist and Nationalist forces.
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The American and British zones of control in Germany are united to form the Bizone also known as Bizonia
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The Bizone and the French zone in Germany launch a common currency, the Deutsche Mark
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Stalin orders the blockade of all land routes from West Germany to Berlin in an attempt to starve out the French, British, and American. As the answer to that, these three powers sent supplies by air.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is founded by Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States, in order to resist Communist expansion.
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Bizone merges with French zone of control to form the FRG
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The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb.
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North Korean invades South Korea.
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Australia, New Zeeland, and United States sign the ANZUS treaty
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the Warsaw Pact is founded as a counter response to NATO
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Sputnik II was launched with the first living being on the board, a dog named Laika.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is formed
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Fidel Castro becomes the leader of Cuba
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Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space and first to orbit the Earth when the Soviet Union successfully launches Vostok 1.
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A CIA-backed invasion of Cuba that ended in failure
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The brinkmanship between Soviets and USA that lasted 13 days that almost ended by the nuclear war
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President of the United States of America is assassinated in Dallas
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The largest military campaign in the Vietnamese War begins
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US accomplishes first landing of man on the Moon
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Agreement begins detente between the US and USSR
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Beginning of an ice hockey tournament between Canada and USSR
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Agreement outlining limitation and guidelines for nuclear weapon is signed between the US and USSR
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Civilian Korean Airlines Flight 007 , with 269 passengers, is shot down by USSR aircraft.
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A Soviet nuclear power plant in the Ukraine explodes, resulting in the worst nuclear power plant accident in history.
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Rioters overthrow the Communist government of Nicolae Ceauşescu, by executing him and his wife
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