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VE day
victory in europre.germany surrenders -
the us drops a atomic bomb
on hiroshima (20 kiloton bombs 'little boy' kills 80,000 -
August 9,1945: The United States drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki (22 kiloton 'Fat Man' kills
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Period: to
cold war
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July 1,1946: Operation Crossroads with Test Able was the first public demonstration of America's atomic arsenal
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truman doctraine
truman declares active role in greek cilvil war -
Bay of Pigs invasion
US invaded cuba -
nuclear treaty aproved
create -
200,000 to vietnam
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U.S. Marines sent to Dominican Republic to fight Communism
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Announcement of dispatching of 200,000 U.S. troops to Vietnam
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North Korea captured U.S.S. Pueblo
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Apollo 11 lands on the moon
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1974: August : President Nixon resigns
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April 17,1975 : North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam which falls to Communist forces
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August,1980: Polish shipyard workers strike Solidarity Union formed. Strike leader Lech Walesa is elected as the head of Solidarity
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1983: October : U.S. troops invades and overthrows regime in Grenada
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October,1986 : President Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe
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January,1989 : Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan
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January,1989 : Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan
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August,1991 : End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends
