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Russia declares war on Japan
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The United States drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki
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Japan surrenders to mark the end of World War 2
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Stalin gives a speech saying that communism and capitalism are imcompatible
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Tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union rises leading to the Cold War.
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President Truman signs a documents stating that communism was not allowed to spread and was only allowed to stay where it is currently at.
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The Soviets blocked off Berlin so that the population would starve, little did they know that the alliance would drop supplies for them.
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Communism forces the U.S. and 11 other countries to form North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO.
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President Truman approves the H-bomb which is supposed to be a lot more powerful than the previous A-bomb
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Conflict between North and South Korea comes to an end.
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Soviet Union and other communist nations form the Warsaw Pact
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The Soviets launch the first satellite into space which scared americans because they thought that they could be attacked at any moment.
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Cuba is now under the control of Fidel Castro
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John F. Kennedy is elected new president of the U.S.
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The Berlin Wall kept people from east Germany from going to the west.
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald
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Apollo 11 was when the first humans landed on the moon.
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Nixon resigns as the president of the U.S.
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Berlin Wall comes down and no longer splits Germany apart.
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Cold War comes to an end and the Iron Curtain is lifted.
