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Yalta conference
A meeting between the Allied leaders Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin in February 1945 at Yalta -
WWII ends in europe
World war 2 has ended in europe -
U.S. drops the atomic bomb
United states dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. -
Potsdam conference
Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman meeting at the Potsdam Conference on 18 July 1945. -
communist seize power in poland
Germany took over Poland -
truman doctrine announced
The Truman Doctrine was an international relations policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry Truman in a speech[1] on March 12, 1947, which stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent them from falling into the Soviet sphere. -
Berlin Airlift begins
The order to begin supplying West Berlin by air -
NATO established
the north atlantic treaty organization was established on 1949 -
USSR EXPLODES its first atomic bomb
On 1949 the USSR tests its first atomic bomb, -
communists win chinese civil war
Communists win chinese civil war in 1949 -
korean war
war between north and south korea -
warsaw pact formed
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact -
fidel castro
fidel castro becomes premier of cuba and establishes communism -
bay of pigs
bay of pigs invasion of cuba. -
cuban missle crisis
The cubans held missels for russia they might launch. -
U.S. commits combat troops to south vietnam
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south vietnam
south vietnam falls to communist forces. -
mikhail gorbachev
mikhail gorvachev becomes leader of the soviet union -
berlin wall
berlin wall is demolished -
soviet union
soviet union is abolished. boris yeltsin becomes president of russia
