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Germany Defeated
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Atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima
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Iron Curtain Speech
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Marshall Plan announced
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Cominform set up by Stalin
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Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia
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Berlin Blockade begins
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Formation of NATO
NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organisation -
Berlin Blockade lifted
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Outbreak of Korean War
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Warsaw Pact
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Testing of First Hydrogen Bomb
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Death of Stalin
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The 'Thaw'
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Ceasefire in Korea
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Khrushchev makes his secret speech
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USSR launches first satellite - Sputnik 1
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USA launches Pioneer 1 Spacecraft
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U2 Crisis; Paris Summit Conference
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Soviets launch first man into Space
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Bay of Pigs invasion
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First American in Space
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Berlin Wall built
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
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Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia
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USA lands first man on the Moon