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The Yalta Conference was the meeting of the heads of government of the U.S., the U.K. and the Soviet Union, intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe
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The U.S. used atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which lead to a costly invasion of Japan.
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The Soviets explode their first atomic bomb, in one of their testing sites. It allowed the U.S. to know that they weren't the only ones who could create atomic bombs and others had the knowledge
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Mao Zedong, a Communist, takes over China
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Sputnik was the first satellite that was launched into orbit by the Soviet Union
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Fidel Castro takes over Cuba
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The Bay of Pigs was an American invasion of Cuba; however, the invading troops were defeated within three days by the armies led by Fidel Castro
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was the confrontation between the Soviet Union and the U.S. It was the closest the Cold War came to turning into a nuclear conflict.
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Apollo 11 carried the first man that officially landed on the moon, who happened to be American.
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Strategic Arms Limitiation Talks were two rounds. In the first round, the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was signed and an agreement between the two countries was establish (the two countries being the U.S. and Soviet Union)
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Round two of the agreements-
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Regan and Gorbachev resolved to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe
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Reagan and Gorbachev agreed to remove all medium and short-range nuclear missiles by signing a treaty.
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The military alliance between the Soviet Union and the surrounding eastern European satellites comes to an end.
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End of the Cold War! Yay!
