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The Yalta Conference
The conference was a meeting of the heads of the major nations including the United States (FDR), United Kingdom (Winston Churchill), Soviet Union (Joseph Stalin). The purpose of this meeting was to re-establish war-torn Europe, this meeting was extremely controversial at the time and remains controversial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalta_Conference -
Hiroshima
American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. This attack started the Nuclear Age. -
Soviet Atomic Bomb
The USSR detonates its first atomic bomb at the Semipalatinsk test site in Kazakhstan.
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The Marshall Plan
The Secretary of State, George Marshal gave a speech at Harvard University suggesting that we give $13 billion dollars in federal aid to help rebuild Europe after WWII.
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NATO
A treaty that was created by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to protect them against the Soviet Union.
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/nato -
North Korea Attacks South Korea
Communist North Korea attacks South Korea and kick starts the Korean War.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/korean-war-begins -
The United States Hydrogen Bomb
Americans set off the world’s first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific. After, this it gave the United States a short-lived advantage during the arms race
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Death of Stalin
Died of a massive heart attack, known to his people as the man that saved them from the nazis. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/joseph-stalin-dies -
Warsaw Pact
A pact that was made with the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania. Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria. This pact stated that is one of the members was attacked by an outside force that they would come to each others aid. -
Treaty of Rome
A treaty between Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and Netherlands. This treaty created the European Economic Community between the countries. -
Creation of NASA
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The fall of the Berlin Wall
After the fall of the berlin wall, it symbolized the end of the cold war.\
http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall
