Cold War

  • V E Day

    Victory in Europe as Germany surrenders to the Russian Army
  • Hiroshima

    The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb in Hiroshima
  • Nagasaki

    U.S. droppes a second bo in Nagasake
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    Cold War

  • Truman Doctrine

    President Truman promised to help any country that was taken over by communists
  • Formation on West Germany

    the French, U.S., and UK merged to from West Germany
  • NATO is formed

    the North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed by Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, UK, and United States
  • Death of Stalin

    Joseph Stalin died at age 74, he was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev
  • Geneva Accords

    set of documents that ended the French War with Vietnam splitting into a North and South state
  • Warsaw Pact

    the Warsaw pact formed by East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union
  • Space Race

    USSR Sputnik ll carried the first living creature into space, Laika (dog)
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    a force of Cuban exiles to overthrow the Communist government
  • JFK Assasination

    assassinated while visiting Dallas, murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald
  • SALT

    Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty signed between the US and the USSR
  • Chernobyl Disaster

    an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine

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