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he formal unification of Germany into a politically and administratively integrated nation state officially occurred on 18 January 1871 at the Versailles Palace's Hall of Mirrors in France.
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Yalta Conference meeting of FDR, Churchill, Stalin - the 'Big Three'
Soviet Union has control of Eastern Europe. The Cold War Begins -
Victory in Europe. Germany surrenders to the Red Army in Berlin
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Germany was officially partitioned into four zones of occupation.
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In July 16, 1945, the creation of the first atomic bomb came to fruition in the United States and was tested at Alamogordo, New Mexico at a site called "Trinity"
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Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War.
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Marshall Plan is announced setting a precedent for helping countries combat poverty, disease and malnutrition
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U.S. meet 19 Latin American countries and created a security zone around the hemisphere
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Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia
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Truman's Loyalty Program created to catch Cold War spies
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Brussels Pact organized to protect Europe from communism.
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Berlin Blockade begins lasting 11 month.
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Berlin airlift to carry supplies to the people of West Berlin, a difficult feat given the city's population
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NATO radified
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Korean War begins. Stalin supports North Korea who invade South Korea equipped with Soviet weapons
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Truman fires MacArthur
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H-bomb Castle-Bravo test
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Kuntsevo Dacha, Moscow, Russia
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The competition began on August 2, 1955, when the Soviet Union responded to the US announcement four days earlier of intent to launch artificial satellites for the International Geophysical Year, by declaring they would also launch a satellite "in the near future
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Start of vietnam war.
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USSR sent tanks into Poznan, Poland, to suppress demonstrations by workers
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Sputnik launched into orbit
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The 1960 U-2 incident happened during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down in Soviet airspace.
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Cuba openly aligns itself with the Soviet Union and their policies.
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Bay of Pigs invasion
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Construction of Berlin Wall begins
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union initiating a campaign of openness called "glasnost" and restructuring called "perestroika"
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The INF Treaty was signed by President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev at a Washington Summit on December 8, 1987
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Berlin Wall is demolished and East Germany allows unrestricted migration to West Germany
