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Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidency
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The Timeline of the Cold War
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Yalta Conference
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Harry S. Truman Presidency
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Adolf Hitler Dies
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Potsdam Conference
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Iron Curtain Built
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Warsaw Pact
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The Space Race
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Explorer 1 Launched
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John F. Kennedy Presidency
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Berlin Border Closed
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Cuban Missle Crisis
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Lyndon B. Johnson Presidency
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Richard Nixon Presidency
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Gerald Ford Presidency
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North Vietnam Wins Vietnam War
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Jimmy Carter Presidency
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Ronald Reagan Presidency
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Reign of Yuri Andropov
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War Games Released in Australia
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Reign of Konstantin Chernenko
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Reign of Mikhail Gorbachev
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George H. W. Bush Presidency
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Fall of the Berlin Wall
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Boris Yeltsin Presidency
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Fall of the USSR
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Bill Clinton Presidency