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COLD WAR STARTED
YALPA CONFERENTE The meeting was with the USA and Great Britain and Soviet Union -
THE U.S. USED THE ATOMIC BOMB
U.S. drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima killing 80,000 people -
END OF WW2
Japan surrenders -
NATO
NATO ratified -
Period: to
KOREAN WAR
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NUCLEAR ARMS RACE
11 atomic test start in Nevada -
WARSAW PACT FORMED
Named because the treaty was signed in Warsaw, included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members -
SPUTNIK LAUNCHED INTO ORBIT BY USSR
The world's first satellite, marking the start of the space race between the U.S. and the USSR. -
EXPLORER 1 LAUNCHED
U.S. launched its own satellite -
FIDEL CASTRO TAKES OVER CUBA
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KHRUSHCHEV VISITS THE US
First Soviet leader to visit the United States -
JOHN F. KENNEDY ELECTED PRESIDENT
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BAY OF PIGS
An invasion to overthrow of Castro. -
BERLIN WALL
Construction starts to build the Berlin Wall -
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
Nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union in Cuba. -
VIETNAM WAR
US sends troops over to fight. -
APOLLO 11
lands on the moon -
VIETNAM WAR OVER
North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam which falls to Communist forces. -
PRESIDEN REAGAN & GORBACHEV
agree to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe -
BERLIN WALL COMES DOWN
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END OF THE COLD WAR
