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The Berlin Wall Falls
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US president truman gives permision for the worlds first military use of atomic weapons against japanese city of hiroshima in atempt to bring the only remaining theatre of war from the Second War in pacific to swift closure.
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A speech that was made for germany in stuttgart which repudiates the Morgenthau plan
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U.S offers assistance to countries threatened by communism especially greece and turkey.
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The communists take power in Czechoslovakia
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Cut off from the outsde world provisions are delivered to the isolated city by the americans in the berlin Air bridge action
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The NATO Treaty was signed in Washington
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Federal republic in germany is established.
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After korea attacks South Korea U.N troops led by the United States invade the country.China and the soviet union back North korea
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On June 17 1953 a worker's uprising in East Germany is crushed by russian tanks
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The federal republic of germany joins NATO and forms the bundeswerhr the first germany army to exist after hitlers fall
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The U.S Great Britain and the Soviet Union agree to suspend surface and underwater test for nuclear weapons
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The first U.S combat forces land in South Vietnam and the soviet land in south vietnam. more than 2 million people perish during the vietnam war.
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Negotiations between the united Nations and the Soviet Union begin on the reduction of strategic nuclear weapons.
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U.S President Ronald Reagan annoucess the development of a world-wide ''Star Wars'' missile defense system with his strategic Defense Iniatiative