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FDR, Winston Churchill, And Stalin ( The Big Three) meet for the Yalta Conference. Thus, the Cold War begins.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on hiroshima causing many deaths, and much destruction.
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The Marshall Plan was an American program to aid Europe. The United States gave money to Europe to prevemt the spread of Soviet Communism
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The Soviet Union placed a blockade on allied sectors of Berlin. This was to starve the people of Berlin into beocming allies. The allies of Berlin responded by flying over and dropping off food and supplies.
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NATO (The North Atlantic Treaty Organization) formed. It served as a multi-goverment alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty.
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The Soviet Union and other Communism-related Eastern Europe Countries became aligned in the Warsaw Pact.
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The Vietnam War begins.
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The Soviet Union launched the first artificial earth satellite. (sputnik) This satellite scared americans.
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The CIA secretly invaded Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro.
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The Berlin Wall was created on August 13th, 1961. It prevented Germans in the East from fleeing to the West.
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Soviets in Cuba threatened to launch nuclear war if the United States entered Cuba. In the Cuban Missle Crisis war was averted.
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President Nixon resigns from being a U.S president.
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Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania.
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The Berlin Wall is taken down, allowing Germans to travel freely,
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The Union Of Soviet Socialist Reublic dissolves.
