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The War of Nuclear Weapons
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The end of World War 2
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Nazi Germany surrenders to allied forces
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The Japanese Empire surrenders after the nuclear strikes on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
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A plan to replenish European economys so Communist Russia doesn't overtake europe
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A blockade to prevent western allies from supplting Berlin giving the Soviet Union control of Berlin
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization ratafies as a Military Organization
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Communist rise to power and take China
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A treaty which bound the eastern states of Europe and the USSR into basically an alliance
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USSR controlled Hungary, Hungary rebelled against Comunisim
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USSR launches Sputnik a sattlite into space
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Fidel Castro takes control of Communist Cuba which leads to the Cuban Missle Crisis
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President John F. Kennedy Elected president in USA
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The Construction of the Berlin wall begins
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Fidel Castro working with the USSR has brought nuclear missles from Russia which threatened the USA
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USA lands first man on the moon
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Debates between the Soviet Union and the USA over the use of nuclear arms
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President Reagan reveals Strategic Defense Initiative.
A system to protect the United States from Soviet Balistic Missles -
both nations USA and the USSR agreed on moving all immediate nuclear missles from Europe
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After WW2 poland was under Communist control via USSR, after 35 years poland becomes independant once again.
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Now the wall that divides Berlin in 2 falls and Germany begins to Unite it's people
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The German people, with the destruction of the Berlin wall, now return to full power of their own country
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republican's Government Dissolves ending the Soviet Union.
The end of the Soviet Union ended the cold war that lasted decades.
Note: Formaly Dissolved on December 25th 1991