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The Yalta Conference takes place to decide what will become of Germany and the rest of damaged Europe. WWII is finally over
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NATO, or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is created to help prevent any more world wars from occurring
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The Warsaw Pact is created as a response to NATO, as it is an alliance of communist countries
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The Soviet Union launches the first satellite in the world
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Fidel Castro becomes the leader of Cuba and makes it a communist country
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The United States' secret invasion of Cuba fails
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The United States sends troops to the Dominican Republic in an attempt to prevent a Communist government
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The North Vietnamese finally over-power the South Vietnamese in Saigon
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Soviet and Cuban forces spread Communism to Angola
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Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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Poland is finally free of its Communistic regime
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Communism loses its hold on Hungary
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The Berlin Wall comes down, which begins the ending of the separation of Germany
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After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany is able to be reunited. Berlin would be completely reunited 4 years later to become the capital of Germany once again
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Extreme members of the Communist party attempt a coup of Gorbachev due to his reform program and new union treaty
