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> Yalta Conference meeting of FDR, Churchill, Stalin - the 'Big Three'. Soviet Union has control of Eastern Europe. The Cold War Begins
> Defeat of Germany and Japan
> Russia declares war on Japan
> Japanese surrender End of World War II

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> Stalin hostile speech -communism & capitalism were incompatible
> Truman demands Russia leave Iran
> Operation Crossroads with Test Able was the first public demonstration of
America's atomic arsenal
>The United States conducted the first-ever underwater nuclear explosion. Test Baker, detonated at the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, was the fifth of over 2,000 nuclear explosions conducted to date.

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> Marshall Plan is announced setting a precedent for helping countries combat poverty, disease and malnutrition
> Rio Pact - U.S. meet 19 Latin American countries and created a security zone
around the hemisphere

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>  Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia
> Brussels Pact organized to protect Europe from communism
> Truman's Loyalty Program created to catch Cold War spies

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> NATO is born
> Russia tested its first atomic bo
> Communist Mao Zedong takes control of China and establishes the People's Republic of China

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> Warsaw Pact formed
> Vietnam split at 17th parallel

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> Vostok rocket launched 1st ICBM
> Sputnik launched into orbit
> Sputnik II launched - Laika died in space
> Explorer I launched

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> John F. Kennedy elected President of USA
> Cuba openly aligns itself with the Soviet Union and their policies
> Cuban Missile Crisis
> President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas
> Apollo 11 lands on the moon

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> Decline of the USSR (Soviet Union)
> Lithuania becomes independent
> Boris Yeltsin elected as President of Russia
> Germany reunited
> End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends