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YALTA CONFRENCE
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Period: to
COLD WAR
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US first use atomic bomb in war
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V-J DAY
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WInston Churchhill delivers IRON CURTAIN speech
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MARSHALL PLAN
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Berlin Blockade
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NATO ratified
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USSR explodes first atomic bomb
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Mao zedong takes over china
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Joseph McCarthy begins Communist hunt in goverment
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Korean war begans
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Rosenberg executions
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Korean war ends
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Vietnam splits at 17th Parallel
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WARSAW PACT formed
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sputnick is launched
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Fidel Castro takes over cuba with communinsim
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U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR
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JFK elected president of USA
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Bay of PIgs invasion
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construction of Berlin Wall begins
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cuba missile crisis
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south vietnam falls to communism
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berlin wall falls
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soviet empire falls
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Germany reunited
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U.S and Russia sign formal end to the cold war
