1945-1992 History Timeline

By amanda_

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide in German bunker

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    1945-1992

  • Germany surrenders to Allies

  • The USA drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

  • USSR enters the war against Japan

  • Japan surrenders, ending World War 2

  • Winston Churchill delivers 'Iron Curtain' speech

  • Truman Doctrine speech made

  • Marshall plan announced

  • The Berlin blockage begins

  • The Berlin blockade ends

  • USSR explodes its first atomic bomb

  • Korean War begins

  • Death of Joseph Stalin

  • Korean war ends

  • Warsaw pact is created

  • USSR launches Sputnik into Earth orbit, initiating the space race.

  • Khrushchev demands U.S leave Berlin

  • John F. Kennedy is elected President of the United States

  • USSR astronaut Gagarin is the first to orbit Earth

  • Berlin boarder closed

  • Construction of the Berlin wall begins

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Nuclear war is narrowly avoided

  • President John F. Kennedy assassinated

  • Gulf of Tonkin incident - start of the Vietnam War

  • China detonates its first atomic bomb

  • Richard Nixon is elected as President

  • USA lands first man on the moon - wins space race

  • Break in at the Watergate office complex, which resulted in the watergate scandal.

  • End of the U.S military draft

  • Eygpt and Syria attack Israel - Eygpt requests Soviet aid

  • Richard Nixon resigns

    the only president in U.S history to do so

  • Ronald Regan elected President

  • Mikhail Gorbachev ascends to power in USSR

  • Gorbachev ends economic aid to Soviet satellities

  • Regan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe

  • Regan and Gorbachev agree to remove all medium and short-range missiles from Europe by signing a treaty

  • Hungary becomes indepedent

  • China puts down protests for a democracy

  • Poland becomes independant

  • The Berlin wall falls

  • Communist governments in Czechoslovakis, Bulgaria and Romania fall

  • Boris Yeltskin elected to presidency of Russia

  • East Germany and West Germany united

  • Warsaw pact ends

  • USSR dissolves, ending the Cold War

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