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World War Two began with the Germans attacking Poland.
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The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. This causes the United States to declare war on Japan, and then Germany declared war on the United States.
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The Allies led an attack on the beaches of Normandy, France in an attempt to re-take over France. Allied victory!
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FDR died of a stroke. Harry S. Truman was inaugurated into office on the same day!
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Hitler commits suicide and his body is burned.
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Churchill, Truman, and Stalin met for 15 days to decide what the post-war world would be like.
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The Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan urging Japan to surrender.
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The Bockscar dropped "Fat Man" over Nagasaki, Japan urging the Japanese to surrender from WW2. They surrendered!
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The Cold War begins.
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North Korea invades South Korea and the U.N. helps the South. The war lasts for 3 years and to this day North Korea is still communist. A victory is unknown because the North is still communist, but we contained the communism and pushed the border North just a bit.
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The Vietnam War started because of Vietnam splitting. The North and the Vietcong eventually ended up taking over the capital of Vietnam after 20 years. Vietnam today is still communist.
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The D`etente was a general easing of tensions between the US and China, and also the US and the USSR.
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The Berlin Wall in Berlin, Germany comes down and there is no split Germany anymore. Germany is democratic now.
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The USSR doesn't exist after a treaty between USSR, Belarus, and Ukraine. Gorbachev resigns as President and a new president comes.
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The Cold War ends after the USSR ceases to exist and becomes Russia.
