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Cold War

  • U.S. Drops atomic bombs on Japan

    The U.S. drops 2 atomic bombs on 2 cities of Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This action ended WWII
  • Cold War starts

    A nuclear war between the Untied States and the Soviet Union.
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  • Britian Falls Through

    Great Britain announces that they can no longer afford to fund the armies in Turkey and Greece that are trying to keep communism out of their country.
  • Marshall Plan

    THe US says that they will contribute to the post-war clean-up and rebuild.
  • The US, France, and Great Britain merge

    The US, France, and Great Britain merge their parts of Berlin and decide to work together to keep the people of these areas safe.
  • The Soviet Union Atomic Bomb

    The Soviet Union had finally made an atomic bomb that was successful.
  • Foreign Propaganda

    The US and the Soviet Union would say that they had 1000 more bombs made by the end of one month to scare the other country.
  • Civil Defense

    President Truman had an agency produced a pamphlet called "How to Survive an Atomic Bomb" and many other things to help the US people stay safe if the Atomic war ever happened.
  • Civil Defense

    Truman signed an act to help provide civil defence practices throughout the US and the Soviet Union did the same but in some different ways
  • Stalin Dies

    Stalin Dies

    Stalin dies and Nikita S. Khrushchev takes over his spot in command.
  • The Yalta and Potsdam agreements

    These 2 agreements failed and everyone was finally noticing and trying to do something about it.
  • Allies

    The US starts to create allies for if the war does happen, Stalin doesn't like this so he starts creating allies too.
  • Revolution in Cuba

    Fidel Castro led a group of men that too over the dictatorship in Cuba
  • Berlin Wall

    The created was to split up the city of Berlin by whole commanded it. Soviet Union didn't like how people would go to the other side of Berlin or how the US and other countries would aid the people
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuba and the Soviet Union had teamed up and were helping each other get stronger bombs and technology. The Soviet Union was so scared of the US they actually threatened to send missiles to Cuba and keep them trained on the US, but they never did.
  • Prague Spring

    Czechoslovakia called for reforms and the government started to follow the lines of democracy instead.
  • Space Race

    When the US and Soviet Union were racing to get people into space, they sent many people to space but on this date, Neil Armstrong was the first man to step foot on the moon.
  • Space Race

    The US and Soviet Union have been trying to one-up each other by getting to space and but the US got the first man on the moon on this date

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