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cold war
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atomic bombs droped on japan
On the 6th of August a USA plane drops a atomic bomb on Hiroshima name "Little Boy" which instantly kill 66,000 people and another 69,000 people die because of the affects of the bomb then 3 days later the USA droped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki which in instantly killed 54,000 people another 26,000 from other affects of the bomb -
Loyalty Program
USA President Harry Truman instituted a Loyalty Program, requiring loyalty oaths and background investigations which was put in place to caatch cold war -
Korean war
Joseph Stalin adds north korea invade south korea with the use of soviet weapons -
berlin wall
Construction of Berlin Wall begins to spilt berlin into half -
Kennedy assassinted
president Kennedy was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.still 80 percent of Americans have suspected that there was a plot or cover-up. -
SALT 1
SALT stand for Strategic Arms Limitation Talks which lead to the freezing of the number of strategic ballistic missile launchers at existing levels, and provided for the addition of new submarine-launched ballistic missile launchers but only after the same number of intercontinental ballistic missile and launchers had been destroyed -
SALT 2
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreement which banned to new missle programs -
INF
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty banned all medium and short-range nuclear missiles -
Berlin Wall is demolished
the wall was knocked down by protestors chanting we want out -
cold war ends
End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends
