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Yalta Conference meeting of FDR, Churchill, Stalin - the 'Big Three'
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The Red Army captures Berlin and with the end of World War II, Berlin is divided into four sectors: the American, British, and French the West; the Soviet in the East
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(20 kiloton bomb 'Little Boy' kills 80,000)
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(22 kiloton 'Fat Man' kills 70,000)
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The Cold War began after the end of World War II because of dissagreements over postwar Europe. Each superpower (United States, Britain, France and Russia) had their own idea of how postwar Europe should be rebuilt. The Cold War rose not from one isolated event, but from the different ideologies and interests between the Soviet Union and the West.
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USSR continued its lead in space exploration with the first person in space, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin who orbited earth in Vostok 1, April 12, 1961. Less than a month later Allan Shepard became the first American in space. That same month, President Kennedy created the Apollo program designed to land a person on the moon “before the decade is out.”
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Berlin wall is opened up.
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End of Soviet Union
