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8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world's first atom bomb
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second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan’s unconditional surrender.
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American foreign policy to stop Soviet imperialism
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an organization formed in Washington, D.C. (1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact
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a weapon theorized to be hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan during World War II.
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collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War, led by the USSR
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At the age of 43, Kennedy was the youngest man elected president and the first Catholic
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a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA
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due to the Watergate Scandal- break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters
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