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yalta conference
u.s drops an atomic bomb on hiroshima japan postdam conferencen-truman -stalin and british divide up europe -
first east european communist goverment set up in albania
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berlin airlift begins ends may 19, 1949
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truman approved H-bomb development
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federal civil defense administration established
april 11truman fires MacArthurt -
March 17-June 4 Nuclear Arms Race atomic test series of 11 explosions at Nevada Test Site
July : Korean War ends December 8: Ike's Atoms for Peace speech -
March 1: H-bomb Castle-Bravo test
U.S. sponsored coup overthrows Guatemalan government.
Sept. Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) formed. -
Warsaw Pact formed
July First Summit Meeting between President Dwight Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev -
June 29: USSR sent tanks into Poznan, Poland, to suppress demonstrations by workers
1956 Nov. Red Army crushes the Hungarian Revolution -
October 4 : Sputnik launched into orbit
November 3: Sputnik II launched - Laika died in space -
January 31: Explorer I launched
November : Khrushchev demands withdrawal of troops from Berlin -
January : Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro
Feb. Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba, installs Communist government. -
December 19: Cuba openly aligns itself with the Soviet Union and their policies.
May : Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory -
cuban civil crisis
the Spanish and its battles afterward to gain its independence. Since the Communist Cuba has been involved with many major conflicts of the Cold War in Africa and Latin America where it had supported Marxist governments and rebels from liberation movements who were opposed to their colonial masters -
1970April : President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia
April 30, 1970 marks the date of President Richard Nixon’s address to the United States stating that the Vietnam war would be mobilized to Cambodia -
April 17 : North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam which falls to Communist forces
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January: U.S. and China establish diplomatic relations.
Dec. Soviet Red Army invades Afghanistan -
Polish shipyard workers strike, Solidarity Union formed.
August: Polish shipyard workers strike Solidarity Union formed. Strike leader Lech Walesa is elected as the head of Solidarity -
January : Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan
May Led by university students, over one million Chinese in Tiananmen Square demand reforms by the Chinese Communist government. -
August : End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends
Aug. Hard-line Communists stage unsuccessful coup against Mikhail Gorbachev.
Dec. The Soviet Union is abolished. Boris Yeltsin becomes President of Russia.
