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Held at Cecilienhof and was significant because the United States President Harry Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill divided up Europe and discussed post world war.
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Test site was Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan. The USSR launches its first atomic bomb named "First Lightning".
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Soviets launch first man‑made satellite. A succesful launch of the unmanned satellite Sputnik I gave the Soviet Union a lead over the United States in technology.
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1400 Cuban exiles launched a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.
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Communist government of East Germany starts building the Berlin Wall to divide West and East Berlin.
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A 13-day long confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union about the concern of Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba.
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China explodes its first atomic bomb allowing them to join the race of Technology.
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President Richard Nixon visiting China was an important step in formally normalizing relations between China and United States.
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Having the Berlin Wall demolished allowed citizzens from east and west Berlin to reunite.
