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four powers divide Germany
The Allies officially divided Germany into the four military occupation zones France in the Southwest, the United Kingdom in the Northwest, the United States in the South, and the Soviet Union in the East -
NATO set up
NATO was created by the USA in 1949. the point of NATO was to stand up against the soviet union -
Korean war
started in 1950 and went till 1953.
it started because North Korea crossed the 38th Parallel to invade south Korean -
US develops H bombs
in 1952 the world's first hydrogen bomb detonated successfully. the reason the US created it was because they wanted to improve their defense and scare the rest of the people -
Vietnam war
it started in 1955 and went till 1975. the US also joined because they wanted to stop the spread of communist -
sputnik launched
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union. It orbited for three weeks before its batteries ran out -
bay of pigs invasion
this fight lasted for about three days. The brigade lost 118 men and they had killed over 2000 -
Berlin wall is built
they wanted the east germans to be blocked off from the west berlins and there's no better way than to build a wall and have it heavily guarded -
cuban missile crisis
this went on for a couple of days and people were really worried about this because it would have started a war -
Czech uprising
the Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends -
I.N.F treaty singed
it was signed by the US and the former soviet union. the treaty made the US and the soviet union eliminate and permanently forswear all of their nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges of 500 to 5,500 kilometers -
iron curtain collapse
The fall of the Wall marked the first critical step towards German reunification. before that Europe was divided into 2 separate areas -
Berlin wall torn down
it was not Mr. Gorbachev but the German people are the ones who finally tore down the barrier so they could cross -
Germany is reunited
in 1990 Berlin was reinstated as the capital city of united Germany and the Länder of the former German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany in its membership in NATO -
Warsaw pact dissolves
the Warsaw Pact provided for a unified military command and the systematic ability to strengthen the Soviet hold over the other participating countries which ended in 1991