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Yalta Conference
Held between British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. -
Marshall Plan
AKA European Recovery Program. was $13 billion to fund the recovery of post war Europe from 1947-1951. -
Communists take over Czechoslovakia
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NATO ratified
(North Atlantic Treaty Organization) the first peacetime military alliance the US entered outside of the Western Hemisphere. had the US, Canada, and several western European nations against the Soviet Union. The European nations were struggling to come back from the war damage. -
Soviets Explode the First Atomic Bomb
Tested at a remote site in Kazakhstan, the bomb was called "first lightning". The soviets build bridges, buildings, and other people things nearby to see the results, they even placed animals in cages to see the effects on human-like mammals. everything was destroyed after the bomb was dropped. -
Communists take over China
A sad day for anti-communists all around the world. China became the largest Communist ran area. -
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Korean War
North Korea invaded South Korea. known as the first military action of the Cold War. American troops aided South Korea. -
Sputnik Launched into Orbit
The Soviet Union beat America to launch the first world orbit, starting the Space Race between the two countries. A very powerful satilite that orbited the earth once every 1.5 hours. -
Sputnik 2 has a friend
By the time the US launched thier first satalite, the Soviets had launched two, one containing a dog for some reason -
Explorer is Launched into Orbit
The first US satalite to go into orbit -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuban exiles launched the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. The invaders were outnumbered and had to surrender less than 24 hours after the Invasion began. -
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Berlin Wall
built to separate Democratic and Communist Berlin. known as the 'Iron Curtain" -
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
The US, Soviet Union, and Great Britain signed the treaty, which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in outer space, underwater, or in the atmosphere. First step toward the control of nuclear weapons. -
Kennedy Assassination
Just three months after signing the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Texas. -
Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon
The first humans to step foot on the moon -
Germany Reunification
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End of Cold War/ Soviet Union
Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan met in the Kazakh city of Alma-Ata and announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union fell due to the large amount of reforms.
