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Yalta Conferance
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United States first used the A - bomb in war
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Japanese Surrender WWII
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winston Churchill gives "Iron Curtain" speech
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Marshall Plan Announced
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Berlin Blockade began
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NATO ratified
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Mao Zedong takes control of China
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USSR explodes their first A - Bomb
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joseph McCarthy begins Communist witch - hunt
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korean War Begins
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed
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Korean War ends
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Vietnam splits at the 17th parallel
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Warsaw pact was formed
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Sputnik launched
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Fidel Castro takes over Cuba
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U2 spy plane was shot down over USSR
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JFK elected president
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Bay of Pigs invasion
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Berlin Wall construction 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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USSR falls
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Germany reunited
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US and Russia sign a formal end to the Cold War
