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Events of the Cold War
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Yalta Conference Cold War Begins
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United States first used atomic bomb in war
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Russia enters war against Japan
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Japanese surrender End of World War II
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Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" Speech
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Map of Europe
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Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War
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Marshall Plan is announced
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President Nixon resigns
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Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia
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Berlin Blockade begins
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Berlin Blockade ends
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NATO ratified
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Mao Zedong, a Communist, takes control of China
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Soviets explode first atomic bomb
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Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt
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Korean War begins
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Federal Civil Defense Administration established
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Rosenberg executions
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Korean War ends
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CIA helps overthrow unfriendly regimes in Iran and Guatemala
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KGB established
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Vietnam split at 17th parallel
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Warsaw Pact formed
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Rebellion put down in Communist Hungary. Egypt took control of Suez Canal; U.S. refused to help take it back
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1957: October 4 -- Sputnik launched into orbit
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Khrushchev demands withdrawal of troops from Berlin
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Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro
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Khrushchev visits United States; denied access to Disneyland
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Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory
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John F. Kennedy elected President
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Bay of Pigs invasion
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Kennedy requests 25% spending increase for military
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Berlin border closed
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Construction of Berlin Wall begins
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U.S. involvement in Vietnam increased
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified
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President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas
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Gulf of Tonkin incident
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U.S. Marines sent to Dominican Republic to fight Communism
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Announcement of dispatching of 150,000 U.S. troops to Vietnam
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North Korea captured U.S.S. Pueblo
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Soviet troops crush Czechoslovakian revolt
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Apollo 11 lands on the moon
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President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia
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SALT I signed
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Cease fire in Vietnam between North Vietnam and United States
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United States helps overthrow Chile government
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Egypt and Syria attack Israel; Egypt requests Soviet aid
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North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam
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SALT II signed
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Shah of Iran overthrown; Iranian Hostage Crisis
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President Reagan proposes Strategic Defense Initiative
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U.S. troops overthrow regime in Grenada
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Iran-Contra Affair (arms sold to Iran, profits used to support contras in Nicaragua)
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Mikhail Gorbachev ascends to power in Soviet Union
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Gorbachev ends economic aid to Soviet satellites
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Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe
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Iran-Contra Affair revealed to public
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Iran-Contra Affair revealed to public
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Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove all medium and short-range nuclear missiles by signing treaty
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Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan
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China puts down protests for democracy; Poland becomes independent
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1989: September -- Hungary becomes independent
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1989: November -- Berlin Wall falls
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Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania; Soviet empire ends
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Lithuania becomes independent
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Boris Yeltsin elected to presidency of Russia
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1990: October 3 -- Germany reunited
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1991: April -- Warsaw Pact ends
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End of Soviet Union Cold War Ends