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U.S USES ATOMIC BOMBS ON JAPAN TO END WWII
The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, killing 210,000 people—children, women, and men. President Truman authorized the use of the atom bombs in an effort to bring about Japan's surrender in the Second World War. -
BERLIN AIRLIFT
When Soviet force blockaded rail, road and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin.It happened because the US used containment to stop the spread of communism so the Soviets built a wall separating west(allied) and east Berlin. So the US sent airplanes to West Berlin to send raw supplies. -
US TESTS FIRST HYDROGEN BOMB
The United States detonates the world's first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific. The test gave the United States a short-lived advantage in the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union. -
U-2 INCIDENT
The U-2 incident was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union in 1960 and that caused the collapse of a summit conference in Paris between the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France. -
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. -
SOVIET AFGHAN WAR
On December 24, 1979, the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978. As midnight approached, the Soviets organized a massive military airlift into Kabul, involving an estimated 280 transport aircraft and three divisions of almost 8,500 men each. -
ABLE ARCHER AND THE WAR SCARE
Able Archer 83 was the annual NATO Able Archer exercise conducted in November 1983. The purpose for the command post exercise, like previous years, was to simulate a period of conflict escalation, culminating in the US military attaining a simulated DEFCON 1 coordinated nuclear attack. -
NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY
Gorbachev emphasized the need of a faster political personnel turnover and of a policy of democratization that opened the political elections to multiple candidates and to non-party members. -
INF TREATY SIGNED
The INF Treaty gives precise definitions of the banned ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles: It eliminated a whole category of nuclear weapons that threatened Europe in the 1980s. An intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) is a ground-launched ballistic or cruise missile having a range capability between 1,000 and 5,500 kilometres. -
BERLIN WALL FALLS
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republicstarting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off the West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin.On 9 November 1989, five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled.