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Yalta Conference
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America first uses the atomic bomb
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Japan surrenders [V-J Day]
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Winston Churchills iron curtain speech
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Marshall 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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Korean War begins
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Rosenberg executions
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Korean War ends
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Vietnam split at 17th parallel
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warsaw pact formed
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Sputnik launched
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Cuba taken by communism
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U-2 spyplane shot down over ussr
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John F. Kennedy elected president
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Bay of Pigs invasion
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Berlin wall is constructed
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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south vietnam falls to communisim
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Berlin wall falls
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soviet empire falls
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Germany reunited
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U.S and Russia sign formal agreement to end the war