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Comecon Created
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Yalta Conference
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Victory in Europe Day
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Potsdam Conference
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Japanese Surrender
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“Iron Curtain” Speech
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Truman Doctrine
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Berlin Blockade/Airlift
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Marshall Plan
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NATO Established
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China Becomes Communist
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Korean War
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KGB Established
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Domino Theory
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Vietnam is divided
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Warsaw Pact Established
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Vietnam War
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Suez Crisis
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Sputnik
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Fidel Castro Takes Over Cuba
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U2 Spy Plane Shot Down
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First Man in Space (Yuri Gagarin)
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Bay of Pigs
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First American in Space (Alan Shepard)
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Berlin Wall Built
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Cubin Missile Crisis
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Gulf of Tonkin Incident/Resolution
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Six-Day War
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Tet Offensive
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Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon
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Yom Kippur War
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Nicaraguan Revolution
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Iranian Hostage Crisis
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Perestroika
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Glasnost
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Iran-Contra Affair
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Tiananmen Square
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Poland Becomes Independent
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Hungary Becomes Independent
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Berlin Wall Falls
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Communist Governments in Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria fall
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Mikhail Gorbachev takes office
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Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russia
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Germany Reunites
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Warsaw Pact Ends
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USSR Dissolved