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Signing of a peace treaty at Yalta between FDR, Stalin, and Churchill.
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Atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.
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Emperial Japan surrenders to end WWII.
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War between North and South Korea lures in the U.S. in an effort to protect the U.S. allies in the South.
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The KGB is established in the U.S.S.R. The acronym is commonly known as the "commitee for state security".
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Sputnick lauched by the U.S.S.R. beating the U.S. into space.
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Cuba is taken over by Fidel Castro with the backing of the Soviet Union.
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The U.S. invades Cuba known as the "Bay of Pigs" invation. It was an unsuccessful mission.
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The Vietnam war raged on for two decades, finally coming to an end in April of 1975.
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President Nixon resigns before Congress can impeach him over the "Watergate scandle".
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This initiative was used for ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles.
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Mikhail Gorbachev became a friend of President Ronald Reagan and was the President of the Soviet Union when that country finally desolved and broke into several states.
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"Tear down this wall!" was the challenge issued by United States President Ronald Reagan to Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall, in a speech at the Brandenburg Gate near the Berlin Wall on June 12, 1987, commemorating the 750th anniversary of Berlin.
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After much debate and sole searching the two leaders of American and the Soviet Union came to an agreement to distroy all intermediate nuclear missles in Europe. It was called "The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty".
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The Cold War ends when pressures escalated inside the Soviet Union, where Communism fell and the U.S.S.R. was formally dissolved in late 1991. The United States remained as the world's only superpower.
