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Yalta Conference, WWII Ends in Europe, U.S. drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Potsdam Conference
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Communist seize power in Polan, Truman Doctrine announced
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Berlin Airlift begins
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NATO established USSR explodes its first atomic bomb Communists win Chinese Civil War
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Korean War
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Warsaw Pact formed
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Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba and establishes communism
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Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, East Germany builds Berlin Wall
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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U.S. commits combat troops to South Vietnam
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South Vietnam falls to Communist forces
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Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union
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Berlin Wall is demolished
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The Soviet Union is abolished. Boris Yeltsin becomes President of Russia.