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First Atomic Bomb
Uranium type atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima -
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Cold War
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Formation Of The United Nation
epresentatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the Atlantic Charter, Agreeing to use all there resources against the axis and not make another peace -
formation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed. NATO is a formal alliance between the territories of North American and Europe. -
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Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North. -
Formation of the Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. -
Vietnam War Starts
Vietnam and its allies know as Veit Cog were pitted against South Vietnam -
Suez Crisis
International crisis in the Middle East. That precipitated on July 26, 1956, when the Egyptian president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, nationalized the Suez Canal. -
The Formation of NORAD
There was a new organization to be formed between Canada and the United States to be known as NORAD or the North American Air Defence Agreement. -
The Cancellation of the Avro Arrow
The government made a thorough examination in the light of all the information available concerning the probable nature of the threats to North America in the future years. -
Gouzenko Affair
A month after the capitulation of Japan, a slightly built 26-year-old man, Igor Sergeievich Gouzenko, fled the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa. He took with him a number of documents, drafted in Russian for the most part, and proving the existence of a Soviet spy ring in Canada. -
Cuban Missles Crisis
The Cuban missle crisis was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba -
SALT Treaty
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union -
End of Vietnam War
The war ended with the withdrawal of US troops -
Strategic Defense Initiative
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a proposed missile defence system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Hungary had disabled is border defense with Austria and more then 13,000 East Germans escaped this cause the Hungarians start blocking east Germans from leaving. -
Break Up Of Soviet Union
This was the date of the day that the country broke up into 15 independent states.