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Yalta Conference
Cold War begins -
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The End of the Soviet Union - The Cold War ends
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United States first used the Atomic bomb
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Japanese surrender - The end of World War II
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Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" speech
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The Marshall Plan is announced
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Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia
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Berlin blockade begins
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Mao Zedong, a communist dictator takes control in China
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Soviets explode first atomic bomb
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Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt
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Korean War begins
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John F. Kennedy elected as president of the USA
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End of the Korean War
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CIA helps to overthrow unfriendly governments in Iran and Guatemala
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Vietnam split at 17th parallel
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Warsaw Pact formed
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Soviet forces invade Budapest to put down anti communist rebellion
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Suez Canal conflict - Egypt claims ownership
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Sputnik launched into orbit
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Khrushchev demands withdrawl of troops from Berlin
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Cuba taken over by communist leader Fidel Castro
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Khrushchev visits the USA
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Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba
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The border between East and West Berlin closed
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Construction of the Berlin Wall begins
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President Kennedy assasinated in Dallas
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Announcement of dispatching of 150,000 troops to Vietnam
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Soviet troops crush Czechoslovakian revolt
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Apollo 11 lands on the Moon
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President Nixon extends Vietnam war to Cambodia
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SALT I Agreement signed
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End of the Vietnam War
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Egypt and Syria attack Israel
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President Nixon resigns
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SALT II Agreeement signed
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Shah of Iran overthrown
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President Reagan proposes Strategic Defense Initiative
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Mikhail Gorbachev ascends to power in the Soviet Union
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Reagan and Gorbachev remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe
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Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan
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Hungary and Poland become independent
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall
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Communist regimes fall in Romania, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria
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Germany reunited
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Warsaw Pact ends