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The bombs were dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima which were cities in Japan. The bomb in Nagasaki killed 70,000 instantly. These bombs ended World War II.
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Speech was given in Fulton, Missouri. Churchill talked about the division between the East and the West, as well as communism and capitalism.
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United States would provide aid to any nation going against communism.
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Soviets detonated their version of the atomic bomb. The explosion was equal to the U.S. version.
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Mao Zedong announces that China will be ruled by communism.
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War was between North and South Korea. U.S. defended South Korea to prevent the spread of communism.
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Senator Joe McCarthy began to investigate people for being Communist. If he accused of you being Communist, it would ruin your reputation.
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Julius and Ethela Rosenberg were executed for selling secrets. Killed by the electric chair.
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Spy organization created to spy on the U.S. and Soviets themselves.
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Gave military control to the Russians over Soviet countries.
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Soviets launched the world's first sattelite into space.
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Castro became the dictator of Cuba. He was a communist.
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The United States' best spy plane was shot down in Russia.
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Wall created by the Soviets in Berlin that separated East and West Germany.
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Soviets were storing missiles in Cuba, only 90 miles away from the U.S.
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John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. Shot by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Apollo 11 went to the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were on the ship.
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President Nixon resigns after Watergate scandal.
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North Viatnamese eventually captured Saigon and ended the war.
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The plan was use to lasers in outer space to shoot down missiles.
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US and Soviet leaders agreed to remove some missiles.
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The Berlin Wall was taken down by Germany.
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East and West Germany reunited after 45 years of separation.
