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The United States drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki
8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world's first atom bomb -
US drops bomb on Hiroshima
second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan’s unconditional surrender. -
Japanese surrender End of World War II
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Defeat of Germany
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Period: to
Cold War
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Truman demands Russia leave Iran
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Truman Doctrine
American foreign policy to stop Soviet imperialism -
NATO ratified
an organization formed in Washington, D.C. (1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact -
Truman Approved HBomb development
a weapon theorized to be hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan during World War II. -
Warsaw pact formed
collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War, led by the USSR -
JFK elected president
At the age of 43, Kennedy was the youngest man elected president and the first Catholic -
Bay of Pigs invasion
a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA -
Cease fire in Vietnam between North Vietnam and United States
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President Nixon resigns
due to the Watergate Scandal- break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters -
Germany reunited
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End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends
