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Agreement to temporarily divide Germany
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United States first used atomic bomb in war
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Japanese surrenders
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Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" speech
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Marshal Plan is announced
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Berlin Blockade begins
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NATO ratified
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Communist Mao Zedong takes control of China
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USSR explodes first atomic bomb
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Joseph McCarthy begins Communist witch- hunt
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Rosenburg executions
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Korean War Ends
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Vietnam split at 17th parallel
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Warsaw Pact was formed
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Sputnik launched
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Cuba taken over by Communist Fidel Castro
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U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR
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John F. Kennedy is elected president
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Bay of Pigs invasion
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Contruction of berlin Wall begins
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Saigon, 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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US and USSR sign formal end to the Cold War
