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japan surrendered, when we announced that we had a second bomb
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The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation.
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International organization
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A speech that opened volleys announcing the beginning of the Cold War.
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Churchill gave the very descriptive phrase that surprised the United States and Britain, warning about soviet communist.
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American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War.
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American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion (approximately $130 billion in current dollar value as of March 2016) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.
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U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany.
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Intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
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Greatly aided by its successful Soviet Alsos and the atomic spy ring, the Soviet Union conducted its first weapon test of an implosion-type nuclear device, RDS-1, codename First Lightning, on 29 August 1949, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR. With the success of this test, the Soviet Union became the second nation after the United States to detonate a nuclear device.
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China fought between forces loyal to the Kuomintang (KMT)-led government of the Republic of China, and forces loyal to the Communist Party of China (CPC).
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United States might make use of its nuclear arsenal to break the military stalemate in Korea.
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After the Soviet atomic bomb success, the idea of building a hydrogen bomb received new impetus in the United States.
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He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first Supreme Commander of NATO.
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Suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died at 9:50 p.m. on March 5, 1953. Stalin's body was washed by a nurse and then carried via a white car to the Kremlin mortuary.
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Efforts to improve diplomatic relations have gained momentum in recent years. In the immediate aftermath of the revolution, Castro's government began a program of nationalization and political consolidation that transformed Cuba's economy and civil society.
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The Cuban Revolution had powerful domestic and international repercussions. In particular, it reshaped Cuba's relationship with the United States. Efforts to improve diplomatic relations have gained momentum in recent years. In the immediate aftermath of the revolution, Castro's government began a program of nationalization and political consolidation that transformed Cuba's economy and civil society.
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United States fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union.
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An international organization for collective defense
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Collective defense treaty among Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
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Confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba.
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Johnson was a Democrat from Texas, who served as a United States Representative from 1937 to 1949 and as a United States Senator from 1949 to 1961.
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dKennedy was fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald while traveling with his wife
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Only U.S. president to resign the office.
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Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon
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Two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union—the Cold War superpowers—on the issue of armament control.
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American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977.
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Carteris an American politician and author who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981
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American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.
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U.S won the olympic hockey championship
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The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was one part of a number of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan.
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American politician and actor, who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
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Proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States
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His efforts to democratize his country’s political system and decentralize its economy led to the downfall of communism.
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Soviet Union pulled its remaining troops out of Afghanistan, ending the USSR’s nine-year occupation of the country.
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First critical step towards German reunification
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Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation
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The declaration acknowledged the independence of the former Soviet republics and created the Commonwealth of Independent States
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American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009