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Yalta Conference
Agreement to temporarily divide Germany. -
First Atomic Bomb
The United States used its first atomic bomb in the war. -
Japanese Surrender
V-J Day -
Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" speech. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan is announced -
The Berlin Blockade
Berlin Blockade begins -
NATO
NATO ratified! -
USSR- atomic bomb
USSR explodes their first atomic bomb. -
Mao Zedong
Communist Mao Zedong takes control of China. -
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy begins communist wich-hunt. -
Korean War starts!
Korean war begins. -
Rosenberg Executions
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Korean War Ends
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Vietnam split at 17th parallel
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Warsaw pact was formed
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Sputnik is launched!
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Cuba taken over by Communist Fidel Castro
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U-2 plane shot down over USSR
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John F. Kennedy elected president
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Bay of pigs invation!
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Construction of the Berlin Wall begins!
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Cuban Missile Crisis!
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Saigon, South Vietnam falls to communism!
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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 end to the Cold War
