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Period: to
Cold War
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Yalta Conference
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U.S. first atomic bomb used in war
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Japanese Surrender (V-J Day)
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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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Communist 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's executions
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Korean War ends
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Viatnam 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 over USSR
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John F. Kennedy elected President
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Bay of Pigs invasion
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Constuction 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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U.S. and Russia sign formal end to the Cold War
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Germany Reunited
