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Period: to
Cold War Era
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Potsdam conference begins in Germany
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Egypt and Syria warn that the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine will lead to war.
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U.S. Military establish government of Syngman Rhee in South Korea.
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Georgi Dimitrov and the Fatherland Front win general election in Bulgaria.
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General George C. Marshall announces the Marshall Plan.
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United Nations General Assembly call for elections in Korea.
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Chaim Weizmann becomes president of Israel.
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Democratic People's Republic established in North Korea.
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North Atlantic Treaty is founded to provide opposition to the Soviet Union.
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Communist forces in China capture Nanjing.
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Harry Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb.
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Chinese and North Korean troops capture Seoul.
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Winston Churchill announces that Britain has an atomic bomb.
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Lavrenti Beria executed in the Soviet Union.
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The United States tests a hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands.
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Civil War breaks out in South Vietnam between supporters of Ngo Dinh Diem and Bo Dai.
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74 people are killed during political protests in Poland.
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The Soviet Union appeals to the United States and Britain to cease nuclear testing.
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The Soviet Union demands that all foreign troops should be withdrawn from Berlin.
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The United Nations decide not to intervene in the independence struggle in Algeria.
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United states ends all aid to Cuba
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Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy hold summit meeting in Vienna.
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John F. Kennedy orders an end to all trade with Cuba.
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John F. Kennedy visits West Berlin.
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
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United States aircraft bomb North Vietnam for the first time.
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Australia decides to send troops to South Vietnam.
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United States government admit to using chemical weapons in North Vietnam.
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The Soviet Union celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution.
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Josip Tito condemns Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
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Richard Nixon promises to remove all US troops from South Vietnam.
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Richard Nixon announces withdrawal of a further 150,000 US troops from South Vietnam.
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Richard Nixon announces he plans to withdraw 100,000 US troops from South Vietnam.
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United States and the Soviet Union sign agreement at the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
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The last of the US troops leave Vietnam.
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India becomes the world's sixth nuclear power.
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Saigon is captured by North Vietnamese forces.
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Jimmy Carter defeats Gerald Ford in presidential elections.
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The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization is dissolved.
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Vietnam begins a full-scale invasion of Cambodia.
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Soviet troops invade Afghanistan.
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The dissent physicist Andrey Sakharov is sent into exile.
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General Wojciech Jaruzelski becomes prime minister of Poland.
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European Community imposes economic sanctions on Argentina.
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Ronald Reagan declares his support for the Nicaraguan Contras.
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Andrey Sakharov begins a hunger strike.
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Mikhail Gorbachev announces a moratorium on Soviet missile deployments in Europe.
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Soviet and Israeli leaders hold talks to discuss the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union.
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Mikhail Gorbachev offers to dismantle all short and medium range nuclear missiles.
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Mikhail Gorbachev announces the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.
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The governments of the United States and the Soviet Union announce the end of the Cold War.
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Lithuania becomes independent
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Boris Yeltsin elected as President of Russia
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Germany reunited
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The communist party of the Soviet Union itself lost control and was banned following an abortive coup attempt
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The dissolution of the Soviet Union
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End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends
