The Cold War

  • The Detonation of the Atomic Bomb

  • Surrender of Japan

  • USSR tests first nuclear weapon

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    Berlin Blockade

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    The Korean War

  • US tests first hydrogen bomb

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    The Vietnam War

  • The Space Race Begins

  • The Berlin Wall is built

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Ceasefire in Vietnam between North Vietnam and the U.S

  • Soviet Union invades Afghanistan

  • Able Archer and the War Scare

  • President Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe

  • Berlin Wall comes down

  • Soviet Union collapses

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