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Yalt Conference
Agreement to temporarily divide Germany -
Atomic Bomb
United States first used atomic bomb in war -
V-J Day
Japanese surrenders -
Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" speech -
Marshall Plan
Marshal Plan is announced -
Berlin
Berlin Blockade begins -
NATO
NATO ratified -
Mao Zedong
Communist Mao Zedong takes control of China -
USSR
USSR explodes first atomic bomb -
Hunt
Joseph McCarthy begins Communist witch- hunt -
Execution
Rosenburg executions -
End
Korean War Ends -
Split
Vietnam split at 17th parallel -
Warsaw
Warsaw Pact was formed -
Space Race
Sputnik launched -
Cuba
Cuba taken over by Communist Fidel Castro -
U-2
U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR -
President
John F. Kennedy is elected president -
Bay of Pigs
Bay of Pigs invasion -
Berlin Wall
Contruction of berlin Wall begins -
CMC
Cuban Missile Crisis -
Saigon
Saigon, South Vietnam falls to communism -
Fall
Berlin Wall falls -
Soviets fall
Soviet empire falls -
Germany
Germany reunited -
END
US and USSR sign formal end to the Cold War
