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Period: to
Cold War
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United States First Uses Atom Bomb in War
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Chinese Communist Mao Zedong Takes Control of China
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US Senator Joe McCarthy Begins Communist Witch Hunt
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Cuba Taken Over by Fidel Castro
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Construction Begins on Berlin Wall
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Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon
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SALT I Signed
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SALT II Signed
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Mikhail Gorbachev Takes Power in the USSR
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Berlin Wall Falls
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Boris Yeltsin Elected President of Russia
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union; End of Cold War
