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The surrendering of Japan, after Nagisaki and Hiroshima.
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This event started when the world relized the power of Atomic weapons.
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The US gave $13 billion dolars to Europe after WWII to help rebuild Europe.
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The ussr creates their 1st atomic bomb. tension rises.
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The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability.
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Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on October 4, 1957.
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The driving force, of course, was the launch of Sputnik on Oct. 4, 1957, followed by its even weightier successors. This led on Feb. 6, 1958 to the establishment of a Senate Special Committee on Space and Aeronautics
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Fidel Castro over throws the Batista, to become the leader.
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The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro.
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