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Cold War begins
1945: February 4-11-- Yalta Conference Cold War Begins -
Atomic Bomb dropped
the Little Boy device was detonated over the Japanese city of Hiroshima -
Russia enters war
Russia enters war -
Berlin Airlift ends
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SEATO formed
meeting of treaty partners in Bangkok, Thailand. -
JFK elected president
J.F.K. becomes the youngest man ever to be elected president of the U.S. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
17 April 1961, was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 -
Berlin Wall
the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and United States on the other. generally regarded as the moment which the cold war came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict
