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Germany Surrenders
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Japan Surrenders
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The Soviet Union occupies East Germany
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Truman Doctrine Speech
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Marshall Plan is proposed
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China Becomes Communist
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NATO is established
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Soviet Gain Nuclear Weapons
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South Korea is invaded by North
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. Truman fires General MacArthur
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Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected president
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Julius and Ethel Rosenburg are executed
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Warsaw Pact is established
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Fidel Castro becomes the leader of Cuba
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Bay of Pigs attack
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Cuban missile crisis
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President John F. Kennedy is assassinated
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Gulf of Tonkin attack
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Nixon becomes President
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North Vietnam captures Saigon