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Russia enters war against Japan
Russia enters war against Japan -
Japanese surrender End of World War II
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Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" Speech
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united states uses first atomic bomb in war
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Marshall Plan is announced
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Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia
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Berlin Blockade begins
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NATO ratified
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Mao Zedong, a Communist, takes control of China
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Warsaw Pact formed
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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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John F. Kennedy elected President
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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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President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas
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Announcement of dispatching of 150,000 U.S. troops to Vietnam
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Berlin Wall falls
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Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania; Soviet empire ends
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Germany reunited
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Warsaw Pact ends
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End of Soviet Union Cold War Ends
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Korean War begins
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Russia enters war against Japan
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Soviets explode first atomic bomb
