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Yalta Conference
Divided Germany in two -
Period: to
Cold War
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US first uses A-bomb in war
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Japanese surrender to USA
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Winston Churchill delivers iron curtain speech
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Marshal Plan is announced by USA
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Berlin Blockade begins
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NATO is ratified
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Communist Mao Zedong takes control of China
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USSR explodes its first Atom Bomb
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Joseph McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt
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Korean War begins
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Korean War ends
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Rosenberg executions
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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 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 invasion
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Construction of 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 cold war
