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Cold War

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    Cold War

    Cold War
  • Cold War 1945 Feb

    Cold War 1945 Feb
    Yalta Conference May World War II ends in Europe. U.S.A drops a atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan. Potsdam Conference Truman Stalin and British divide up Europe
  • Jan 1946

    First East European Communist government set up in Albania.
  • 1947 jan

    Communists seize power in Poland. "March" Truman Doctrine announced.
  • Apr 1949

    Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb.
  • Jan 1950

    U.S. and other U.N. members fight North Korean forces.
  • Nov 1956

    Red Army crushes the Hungarian Revolution.
  • Oct 1964

    China explodes its first atomic bomb.
  • aug 1968

    Soviet Red Army crushes Czech Uprising.
  • dec 1983

    U.S. invades Grenada.
  • nov 1991

    Hard-line Communists stage unsuccessful coup against Mikhail Gorbachev.