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Yalta Conference
Agreement to temporarily divide Germany -
Atomic Bomb
United States first used the atomic bomb in war -
Japanese Surrender
VJ Day -
Winston Churchill Speech
Speech about the Iron Curtain -
Marshall Plan
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Berlin Blockade
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NATO ratified
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Mao Zedong takes control of China
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USSR explodes first atomic bomb
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Joseph McCarthy begins Communist witch hunts
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Korean War
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Rosenberg Couple Executions
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Korean War Ends
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Vietnam Spilts
Spilts at 17th Parallel -
Warsaw Pact
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Sputnik is launched
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Cuba taken over by Communist Fidel Castro
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U-2 Spy Plane caught by USSR
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John F. Kennedy elected President
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
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Construction of Berlin Wall begins
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Saigon, South Vietnam falls to Communism
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Berlin Wall falls
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USSR falls
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Germany reunited
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US and USSR end Cold War