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Period: to
The Cold War
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Yalta Conference / Agreement to temporarily divide Germany
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U.S. first uses Atomic Bomb in war
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Japanese surrender (V-J Day)
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Winston's "Iron Curtain" speech
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Marshall Plan is announced
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Berlin Blockade begins
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NATO ratified
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Communist Mao Zedong takes control of China
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USSR explodes first Atomic Bomb
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Joesph McCarthy begins Communist witch-hunt
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Korean War begins
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Rosenburg executions
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Korean War ends
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Vietnam split at 17th parallel
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Warsaw Pact formed
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Sputnik Launched
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Cuba taken over by communist Fidel Castro
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U-2 spy plane shot down over 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 Missle Crisis
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Saigon, South Vietnam falls to communism
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Berlin Wall falls
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Soviet Empire falls
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Germay Reunited
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U.S. and Russia sign formal to end the Cold War
