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- 0.0 Project Descriptor and Rubric
- 0.1 Wiki Introduction
- 0.2 Monday, April 4th
- 0.3 Wednesday April 6th
- 0.4 Friday April 8th
- 1945 The Yalta Conference
- 1945_U.S. sets first Atomic bomb in war
- 1946_Winston Churchill Delivers Iron Curtain Speech
- 1947_ Marshall Plan announced
- 1948_Berlin Blockade begins
- 1949_ Mao Zedong, a Communist
- 1949_Berlin Blockade
- 1949_NATO Ratified
- 1949_Soviets explode their first atomic bomb
- 1950_ Korean War begins
- 1950_Red Scare
- 1951_Federal Civil Defense Administration established
- 1953_Korean War Ends
- 1953_Rosenberg Executions
- 1954 CIA overthrows Iran and Guatemala
- 1954_KGB Established
- 1954_Vietnam Split at the 17th Parallel
- 1955 Warsaw Pact is Formed
- 1957 to 1970 The Cold War Space Race
- 1957_Sputnik launched into orbit
- 1958_Krushchev demands withdrawal of troops from Berlin
- 1959_Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro
- 1961_Bay of Pigs Invasion
- 1961_Berlin Border Closed
- 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
- 1963_Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
- 1964_Gulf of Tonkin episode (Vietnam)
- 1965 U.S Sends troops to Vietnam
- 1965_U.S. Marines sent to Dominican Republic to fight Communism
- 1968_Soviet troops crush Czechoslovakian revolt
- 1970_ President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia
- 1972_ SALT I treaty signed.
- 1973 Egypt and Syria attack Israel; Egypt requests Soviet Aid
- 1973_U.S. Helps Overthrow Chile Government
- 1979_SALT II Treaty Signed
- 1979_Soviet Union invades Afghanistan
- 1980_Spying in West Berlin
- 1983_President Reagan proposes SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative)
- 1983_US Troops overthrow Regime in Grenada
- 1986_Iran-Contra Affair
- 1986_Reagan and Gorbachev remove missiles in Europe
- 1989_Berlin Wall falls
- 1989_China crushes protests for Democracy
- 1989_Communist governments fall in Czchoslovakia,Soviet empire ends
- 1989_Hungary Becomes Independent
- 1989_Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan
- 1990_Germany Reunited
- 1991_End of Soviet Union-Cold War Ends
- 1991_Warsaw Pact Ends
- 2011_ Cold War Pop Culture
- Communist Takeover in Czechoslovakia
- Iran-Contra Affair
- Lithuania becomes independent