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Yalta Conference
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Germany surrenders to the Allies in WWII, Victory in Europe
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Potsdam Conference
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US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Japan surrenders to the Allies in WWII, Victory in Japan, End of WWII
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"Iron Curtain" speech by Churchill
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Truman Doctrine
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McCarthyism/Red Scare begins
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Marshall Plan
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Berlin, Germany, blockade by USSR and US airlift
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Poland Becomes Communist
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization organized
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Berlin, Germany, blockade ends
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Korean War begins
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Dwight D. Eisenhower elected PotUS
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Joseph Stalin, leader of USSR, dies
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Rosenberg spy execution
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Korean War ends
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Vietnam Split at 17th parallel
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Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (S.E.A.T.O.) 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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Khrushchev becomes leader of USSR
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Fidel Castro takes over Cuba
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Khrushchev and Nixon have "Kitchen Debate"
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U.S. U2 spy plane shot down over USSR
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Leonid Brezhnev becomes leader of USSR
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John F. Kennedy elected President of the United States
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USSR Astronaut Yuri Gagarin orbits earth
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Bay of Pigs, Cuba 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 Missile Crisis
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President John F. Kennedy delivers famous "Ich Bin Ein Berliner" speech
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President JFK assassinated/LBJ becomes President of the United States
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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 M. Nixon elected President of the United States
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U.S. puts first man on the moon
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President Richard M. Nixon visits China
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Ceasefire in Vietnam
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President Richard M. Nixon Resigns/Gerald R. Ford becomes President of the United States
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End of Vietnam War with the fall of Saigon
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Jimmy Carter elected President of the United States
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Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected Pope of the Holy Roman Catholic Church (John Paul II)
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Iranian Hostage Crisis
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USSR invades Afghanistan
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United States boycotts 1980 summer olympics
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Ronald W. Reagan eleceted President of the United States
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Leonid Brezhnev dies
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Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of Soviet Union
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President Ronald Reagan delivers Berlin Wall speech
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Russian troops withdraw from Afghanistan
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George H.W. Bush elected President of the United States
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Poland becomes independent
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Tiananmen Square in China
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Berlin Wall falls
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East and West Germany reunite
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Boris Yeltsin elected President of Russia
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Warsaw Pact ends
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Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as leader of the Soviet Union
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Soviet Union dissolves/Cold War ends
