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Yalta Conference
Cold War begins -
Marshall Plan Announced
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Communist Takeover in Czechoslovakia
President forced to resign -
NATO Ratified
North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created to provide security against the Soviet Union -
Geneva Conference
Vietnam was to be divided along the 17th parallel -
Warsaw Pact Formed
Treaty among Soviet Union and other Soviet satellites -
Fidel Castro takes over Cuba
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Bay of Pigs
Failed attempt to invade Cuba by US -
Cuban Missile Crisis Begins
Soviets install nuclear missiles on Cuba resulting in a military standoff -
JFK Assassination
Assassinated in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald -
SALT I Signed
Strategic Arms Limitation Treatment in which the US and Soviet Union agreed to limit their nuclear weapons -
North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam
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SALT II Signed
Outlined weapons limitations -
Reagan Proposes SDI
Strategic Defense Initiative supposed to prevent missile attack, also referred to as Star Wars -
Cold War Ends
Soviet Union fell
