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Yalta Conference
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Germany surrenders to the Allies in W.W.II, Victory in Europe
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Potsdam Conference
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U.S. drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagaaki, Japan
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Japan Surrenders to Allies
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"Iron Curtain" speech by Winston Churchill
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McCarthyism/Red Scare begins
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Truman Doctrine
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Marshall Plan
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Berlin, Germany, blockade by USSR and US air lift
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Poland becomes communist
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) organized
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Korean War begins
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Dwight D. Eiosenhower elected POTUS
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Joseph Stalin leader of the USSR dies
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Rosenburg spy execution
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Korean War ends
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Vietnam split at the 17th parallel
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Southeast Asia treaty Organization (SEATO) created
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Warsaw Pact formed
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American Involvement in Vietnam
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Eisenhower doctrine
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USSR Sputnik in Orbit
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Nikita Khruschev becomes leader of the USSR
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Fidel Castro takes over Cuba
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Nikita Khruschev and Vice President Richard Nixon have "Kitchen Debate"
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US U2 spy plane shot down over USSR
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Leonoid Brezhnev becomes leader of the USSR
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JFK elected POTUS
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USSR Astronaut Gagarin orbits earth
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Bay of Pigs invasion by the US
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Berlin Wall construction begins
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Berlin, Germany, border closed
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Cuban Missle Crisis
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JFK assassinated/LBJ becomes POTUS
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JFK's delivers "Ich Bin Ein Berliner" speech
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Gulf of Tonkin Incident- start of Vietnam War
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Tet Offensive in Vietnam
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Richard Nixon elected POTUS
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US puts first man on the moon
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President Richard Nixon visits China
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Ceasefire in Vietnam
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President Richard Nixon resigns/ Ford become POTUS
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End of Vietnam War with the fall of Saigon
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Jimmy Carter elected President
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Cardinal Carol Wojtyla elected Pope of the Holy Roman Catholic Church (John Paull II)
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Iraninian Hostage crisis
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USSR invades Afghanistan
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US boycotts 1980 Summer Olympics
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Ronald W. Reagan elected POTUS
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Leonoid Brezhnev dies
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Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of USSR
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President Reagan's Berlin Wall speech
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Russian troops withdraw from Afghanistan
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George H.W. Bush elected POTUS
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Poland becomes independent
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Tiananmen Square in Chine
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Berlin Wall falls
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East and West Germany reunite
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Boris Yelstin elected President of Russia
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Warsaw pact ends
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Gorbachev resigns as leader of the USSR
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USSR dissolves/ Cold War ends
