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V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (7 May in Commonwealth realms) to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.[1] It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe.
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First atomic bomd dropped atnNagasaki in August 1945, during the final stage of World War II.
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The end of WWll. The Japanses surrender.
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After Japanese surrender in WWII Vietnamese communist declares independence of Vietnam from France.
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ivided into four sectors, with the Western Allies joining their sectors to form West Berlin, while the Soviets held East Berlin.
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American troops had entered the war on South Korea’s behalf. As far as American officials were concerned, it was a war against the forces of international communism itself. After some early back-and-forth across the 38th parallel, the fighting stalled and casualties mounted with nothing to show for them. Meanwhile, American officials worked anxiously to fashion some sort of armistice with the North Koreans. The alternative, they feared, would be a wider war with Russia and China–or even, as some
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73 years of age, had 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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Treaty of Friendship between Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
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Soviet victory; revolution crushed
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Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union USSR and the United States US for supremacy in spaceflight capability.
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot twice, and an hour after his death Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the crime.
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150000 US Troops sent to Vietnam
