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Yalta Conference
Agreement to temporarily divide Germany -
US Atomic bomb
Used by USA at the first time -
V-J Day
Japanese surrender -
Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill delivers speech -
Marshall Plan
Announcing this plan to help the European recovery -
Berlin Blockade
One of the first major international crises of the Cold War -
NATO
NATO ratified -
Mao Zedong in China
Comunist Mao Zedong takes control of China -
Atomic bomb USSR
USSR explodes first atomic bomb -
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy begins Communist witch-hunt -
Korean War begins
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Rosenberg 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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Fidel Castro in Cuba
Cuba taken over bz Communist Fidel Castro -
U-2 spy plane
U-2 shot down over USSR -
John F. Kennedy elected president
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Bay of Pigs invasion
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Berlin Walls
Construction begins -
Cuban Missile Crisis
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South Vietnam into communism
Signol, South Vietnam falls to communism -
Berlin wall falls
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Soviet empire falls
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Germany reunited
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The end of the Cold War
U.S. and Russia sign formal end of the Cold War
