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U.S.A bombs japan
After leaving germany for religious reasons. Albert Einstein told FDR that germany was builing a powerful bomb. So FDR stared the mannhaten project. The mannhaten project was a mission to make an atomic bomb. We later used it to defeat japan. -
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coldwar
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The Soviet Union gets neuclar bombs
Now after 1489 days after hiroshmi the soviets finalily have the atomic bomb. So what does that mean. Thats 4 years 4 weeks 3 days, 5hours 36 minitence and 47.3184 seconds. and let me tell you that was tarfiying. warning real fear ahead -
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korein war
The koreian war is also called the forgoten war. This is because that the veitnam war dwarfs it. We acualy almost anaiated this war. That was before china go involed. -
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Vietnam War
The veitnam war stared as a small war. That was untill jfk was assassnationed. After Lyndon Johnson came to power we uped to war efort. This would lead to the usa not trusting the government. Nixon would later end the veitnam war. -
U.S.A. puts nuculer bomds in turkey
Because of Turkey and US being allies, Turkey allowed our country to put nuclear bombs in their country. This is a big deal because Turkey's geographic location. This obviously made Russia upset, thus escalating the Cold War.. -
Berlin wall is built
West Berlin was considered a geographic loophole and 1000s of East Germins fled to the democratic west there. In response to this Communist East Germany built a wall that totally circled West Berlin. This Wall was built overnight, literally on August 13, 1961. -
Cuban missile crisis
The cuban misslie crisis is the closes to nuculer war. With nuculear missiles in cuba, it would take five minitse to atack us. With this crisis that lasted 13d ays presidint kennity made adill with russia. He would never atack cuba and russa would remove missiles from cuba. also secritly we removed misiles from turkey -
JFK assassnation
While driving down elms steet, dallas Teaxs. Presedent Kennedy was shot with a rifel. The person who killed him was Lee Harvey Oswald. After being convicted at 12:20 on the 24th. He was killed. this obviosly shoked the nation. -
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Richard Nixon preseditial trem
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moon landing
This is the first thing that we finaly beated the russians in a space race. Our landing on the moon was nice because it helped end the 1960's on a very good note. It was now believed that we could win the cold war. -
Soviet Union is dissolved
46 years after the japan bombing. The usa under the predency of ronald regan uped military spending. This is hard to keep up with a comunist econamy. This caueed the soveit union to calapes.