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The GI Bill was passed in 1944 and it encouraged veterans to get an education that would be payed for by the government and to start a family. This resulted in a crazy amount of babies being born. This generation is referred to as baby boomers.

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Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill all sitting down

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World war 2 finally ends and the allies talk about what they want to do with Germany and the city of Berlin.

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Roosevelt dies in 1945 and Harry S. Truman is appointed the president of the USA.

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The Soviets build their first atomic bomb. This caused wide spread panic among Americans.

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NATO was established in 1949 and involved Western European Countries and America mainly.

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After the Soviets built their bomb and tested it successfully the Americans became worried that they would launch a bomb at them, so many families built bomb shelters in case the worst was to come. This fear lasted the entire Cold War.

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The Chinese Civil War was won by the communists in 1949 and it was ruled by Mao Zedong who killed many people by starvation as a result of his cruel policies.

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Joseph McCarthy falsely accused people of being communist which led to great fear in the nation throughout the red scare.

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North Korea became communist and marched into South Korea in hopes to take control. America was afraid of the Domino theory and sent troops into South Korea to help. They almost won but China and the Soviet Union got in the way and ultimately the war ended in a stalemate with no winner.

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America and the Soviet Union competed for power in space during the space race. The Soviet Union was winning at first but then miraculously America managed to catch up and was the first to land people on the moon in 1969.