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Yalta Conference/ Agreement to temporarily divide Germany
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U.S used the first atomic bomb in war
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Japanese surrender (V-J Day)
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Winston Churchill delivers "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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Ciommunist Mao Zedong takes control of China
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USSR explodes first atomic bomb
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Joseph 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 by 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 Missile 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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Germany reunited
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U.S and Russia sign formal end to Cold War
