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Cold War
Cold War -
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.