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American president Franklin Roosevelt, Soviet leader Josef Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill—meet at the Yalta Conference to determine what to do to bring the world to peace after the end of the war.
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President Roosevelt dies and leaves Vice President Harry Truman to deal with the issues. He had to deal with these issues having little knowledge of what Roosevelt was planning on doing.
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The first atomic bomb was tested in New Mexico.
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The United States dropped a bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
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The United States drop a bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/levine/bomb/nag2.jpg
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The World War II came to an end.
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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave a memorable speech about how the soviets were trying to wall themselves off from the west.
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Idyllic Bikini Atoll, becomes the site of testing of a series of nuclear weapons.
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Cut off rail road access to the capital city located in eastern Germany, in the middle of the Soviet union.
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Soviet releases its first atomic bomb. This then scares the United States.
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The United States ends its military occupation in Japan. http://www.shmoop.com/causes-of-cold-war/timeline.html
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The United States releases its first hydrogen bomb.
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The Soviets created a hydrogen bomb 9 months after the U.S. did.
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The United States started an 11 month airlift that brought needed supplies into the city by plane.
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