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WWII ends in Europe
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Truman Doctrine anounced
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Berlin Air LIft begins
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NATO was established
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Soviet Union explodes first atomic bomb
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Communists win Chinese Civil War
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U.S and U.N nations fight North Korea
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Korean war ended
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U.S coup overthrows Iranian government
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U.S sponsered coup overthrows Iranian government
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Southeast Asia Treaty Organization is formed
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Warsaw pact formed
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Red Army crushes Hugrain Revolution
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Sovits launch first man made satelite
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Fidel Castro installs communist power in Cuba
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East Germany Builds Berlin Wall
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Cuban missle crisis
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China explodes first atomic bomb
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U.S sends troops into Vietnam
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Soviet Red Army crushes Czech Republic
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President Nixon visits China
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South Vietnam falls to Communist forces
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U.S. and China establish diplomatic relations
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U.S. invades Grenada.
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Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union, the following year he declares glasnost and perestroika
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Led by university students, over one million Chinese in Tiananmen Square demand reforms by the Chinese Communist government
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Solidarity forms The first post-war non-Communist government in Poland
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Hungary declares a non-Communist government
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East Germany allows unrestricted migration to West Germany
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Berlin Wall is demolished
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George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev agree to the reunification of Germany
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The Soviet Union is abolished. Boris Yeltsin becomes President of Russia