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Cold War

  • USA drops atomic bob on Nagasaki

    USA drops atomic bob on Nagasaki

    Shows the world the USA has atomic bomb power
    https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/public/TrumanCIA_Timeline.pdf
  • Truman demands Russia to leave Iran

    Starts conflict between USA and Russia
  • Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia

    Start of the spread of communism
  • Truman's Loyalty Program

    Used to catch Russian spies
  • Berlin Blockade begins

    West and East Berlin starts to be blocked off
  • NATO ratified

    Forms of alliances begin again
  • Berlin Blockade ends

    Berlin comes mixed again
  • Russia test their first atomic bomb

    Russia tries to catch up with the USA in the arms race
  • Truman apporved H-bomb development

    USA starts to invent a stronger bomb
  • Korean war starts

    USA allies with the south and USSR allies with the north
  • Korean War ends

    North and South become at a standstill
  • Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro

    Castro makes Cuba into communist
  • JFK elected President

    A new look on communism for the USA
  • Construction of Berlin Wall

    Separate west and east Berlin
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    USSR and the USA come close to war
  • Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified

    allowed countries to test nukes