Cold War

By coreymcfeeley
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    Cold War

  • United States first used atomic bomb in war

  • Japanese surrender End of World War II

  • Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" Speech

  • Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War

  • Soviets explode first atomic bomb

  • Korean War begins

  • Korean War ends

  • Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro

  • John F. Kennedy elected President

  • Berlin border closed

  • 1962: October -- Cuban Missile Crisis

  • 1963: November -- President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas

  • 1970: April -- President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia

  • 1974: August -- President Nixon resigns

  • 1983: -- President Reagan proposes Strategic Defense Initiative

  • 1989: June -- China puts down protests for democracy; Poland becomes independent

  • 1991: August -- End of Soviet Union Cold War Ends