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An american B-29 dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hirsohima. -
In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city. For nearly a year, supplies from American planes sustained the over 2 million people in West Berlin. -
The Soviet Union test its first nucluer bomb nicknamed JOE-1 -
The korean war was a battle fought between North Korea and South Korea from June 25th 1950 to July 27th 1953. The Korean war was the first military action of the Cold War -
The vietnam war lasted about 20 years ending in 1975. The main reason for the vietnam war was to stop the spread off communism -
The soviet Union began to secretly install missles in cuba to launch attacks on U.S cities -
Soviets organized a massive military airlift into KAbul, involving an estimated 280 transport aircraft and three divisions of almost 8,500 each -
The National Security Archive, a longtime proponent of the view that Able Archer nearly triggered a nuclear war. -
The fall of te berlin wall was a pivotal event in world history which marked falling of communist in central and eastern europe. -
On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. Earlier in the day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state.