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US drops bomb on Japan, because they refused to surrender.
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Japanese finally surrendered after second bombing by the US on Nagasaki.
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Mao Zedong becomes dictator of China.
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Stalin supports North Korea who invade South Korea equipped with Soviet weapons.
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After three years of a bloody and frustrating war, the United States, the People’s Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea agree to an armistice, bringing the Korean War to an end.
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The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
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Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses.
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He ruled over Cuba for nearly five decades, until handing off power to his younger brother Raúl in 2008.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
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The Berlin Wall came down in 1989 and the Soviet Union ended in 1991. The Cold War was over.
