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The United States drops an atomic bomb, "Little Boy", on Hiroshima.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb, "Fat Man", on Nagasaki killing 70,000 people.
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The Japanese surrender which ends World War II.
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With the growing of communist ideals, the United States and other Western nations created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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The United States agrees to provide France with military and economic assistance. This all but ensured that we would help South Vietnam defeat North Vietnam and Communist government.
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The USSR launched Sputnik 1 into space. This propelled the space race and the fight for supremacy in S.T.E.M. during the Cold War.
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Cuba is taken over by Fidel Castro. He established the first Communist government in the western hemisphere at this time.
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A failed military invasion by the United States and their CIA. They tried to train a guerrilla army of Cuban exiles to overthrow Fidel Castro and his military.
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The construction of the Berlin Wall begins splitting Germany.
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John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. It was never known if Lee Harvey Oswald was a part of a communist terror group.
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U.S. troops invades and overthrows the Grenada regime. The successful overthrow results in a democratic government.
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The Berlin wall is demolished. The crowds flood the street as East Germany allows unrestricted migration to West Germany.
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The Communist governments in Czechoslovakia, Rumania, and Bulgaria fall. This leads to the decline of The Soviet Union.
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The Cold War ends and so does the Soviet Union.
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A formation of communist countries in Eastern Europe, like The Soviet Union, that founded a rival alliance against other governments.
