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hiroshima & nagisaki bombing
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict -
Berlin Blockade/ Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control -
USSR develops a nuclear weapon
the Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear test, code-named 'RDS-1', at the Semipalatinsk test site in modern-day Kazakhstan. -
Korean War
The brutal war that raged 60 years ago killed more than two million Koreans, separated thousands of families, and created the world's most heavily fortified border. -
NATO/ Warsaw Pact/ SEATO
The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955 and represented a Soviet counterweight to NATO -
vietnam War
The war caused turmoil on the home front, as anti-war protests became a feature of American life. -
Sputnik
he Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite -
Berlin wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. -
Cuban missle crisis
The Cuban missile crisis was arguably the 'hottest' point of the Cold War. It was the closest the world has come to war between the US and USSR, nuclear war and annihilation -
salt 1 and salt 2
intended to restrain the arms race in strategic (long-range or intercontinental) ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons
