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Meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin to decide what would happen at the end of the war.
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Victory in Europe Day as Germany surrenders to Russia.
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The United States dropped the first atomic bomb.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's members include Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States
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USSR Sputnik II carried Laika the dog, the first living creature to go into space.
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Berlin wall built and borders sealed between East and West Germany.
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An American spy plane reported sighting the construction of a Soviet nuclear missile base in Cuba. Russia removed the weapons when the U.S. agreed not to invade Cuba.
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Several countries boycotted the Olympics held in Moscow in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
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Russia and 13 other countries boycotted the Olympics held in Los Angeles in retaliation for the US boycott of 1980.
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Anti Communist protests in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China were crushed by the government.
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The Berlin Wall was torn down.
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A meeting between Gorbachov and Bush reversed much of the provisions of the Yalta Conference.
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A series of peaceful protests in Czechoslovakia that led to the overthrow of the Communist government.
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Gorbachev resigns and the hammer and sickle flag on the Kremlin was lowered
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Russia officially recognises the end of the Soviet Union
