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The project's scientists started to develop a new super weapon called the "A-Bombs" and used them on the Japanese to end World War 2 with the least amout of American casualities
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The second major world war between the Allies and the Axis that lasted 6 years and one day.
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A meeting between the most powerful men in the world which they discussed the world after the war.
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Japan surrendered to the Americans after they (USA) dropped 2 A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki which killed a total of 229,000 people.
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NATO is a formed alliance between Europeian and North American countries to defend each other from an attack from the Soviet Union.
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This was when things got frustrating and conflict started between the Soviet Union and the US.
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Competition between Soviet union and the US to send a man to space. The Soviets were the first to send someone up but the US was the first to send a man to the moon.
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A CIA spy plane that flew over Soviet soil and they (USSR) shot it down. The US had to have an embarrassing conference with the Soviets
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The United States tried to invade Cuba but failed miserably.
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Regan visited the Berlin wall to show his commitment to West Berlin and the NATO forces.
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13 day political and military standoff. The Soviet Union set up missiles in Cuba. The United States had to threaten them to take them away.
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The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in Outerspace, the Atmosphere or underwater.
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The Soviet Union won the Space Race but the United States won the race to the moon when they sent the first humans to the Moon.
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East and West Germany reunited and stopped being a communist state. This was a sign of the end of the Cold War for many people.
