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U.S drops atmoic bomb on Hiroshima
The Allies of World War II conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. These two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date. Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima -
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Japan surrenders--End of world war two
By the middle of 1945, the war in Europe was over, and it was clear that the Japanese could hold no reasonable hope of victory. After years of grueling battle, fighting island to island across the Pacific, Japan’s Navy and Air Force were all but destroyed and the Japanese people were starving. -
Marshall Plan is Announced
Secretary of State George C. Marshall announced a plan to provide economic assistance to the devastated nations of Europe after World War II.
Marshall implied that funding would be available for all of Europe, including Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, but the Soviet Union refused to participate. -
Berlin Blockade by USSR begins
During World War II Germany and the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road and canal access to the sectors of Berlin.
Their aim was to force the western powers to allow the Soviet zone to start supplying Berlin with food and fuel, thereby giving the Soviets practical control over the entire city. -
NATO ratified as a military organization
this is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty .The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. -
USSR explodes it's first atomic bomb
The successful Soviet test came as a profound shock to the West. U.S. intelligence believed that the Soviet Union was at least several years away from being able to detonate a nuclear device.
The American nickname for the first Soviet atomic test, referred to Joseph Stalin -
Korean war Begins
A war between the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
The failure to hold free elections throughout the Korean Peninsula in 1948 deepened the division between the two sides; the North established a communist government, while the South established a capitalist one -
Warsaw pact formed
The Warsaw Pact, so named because the treaty was signed in Warsaw, included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members. The treaty called on the member states to come to the defense of any member attacked by an outside force and it set up a unified military command under Marshal Ivan S. Konev of the Soviet Union -
USSR Iaunches Sputnik Into Earths Orbit
The Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I,The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball.
While the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of the space age and the U.S.-U.S.S.R space race. -
John F. Kennedy elected President
John F. Kennedy becomes the youngest man ever to be elected president of the United States,
The campaign was hard fought and bitter. For the first time, presidential candidates engaged in televised debates -
Construction Of Berlin wall Begins
In an effort to stem the tide of refugees attempting to leave East Berlin, the communist government of East Germany begins building the Berlin Wall to divide East and West Berlin.
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war.
Soviet missiles were only powerful enough to be launched against Europe but U.S. missiles were capable of striking the entire Soviet Union. So the, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev conceived the idea of placing intermediate-range missiles in Cuba -
China Detonates its First atomic Bomb
596 is the codename of the People's Republic of China's first nuclear weapons test, detonated on October 16, 1964 at the Lop Nur test site. It was a uranium-235 implosion fission device and had a yield of 22 kilotons. With the test, China became the fifth nuclear power. -
U.S Lands First Man On The Moon
A race was on to put a man on the moon. President Kennedy had challenged the nation. It was the mission of Apollo 11 to land two men on the moon, then return them safely to Earth. -
SALT 1 Nuclear Treaty Signed
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) refers to two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union—the Cold War superpowers—on the issue of armament control. The treaties then led to START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty), -
Reagan Reveals Strategic Defense Initiative, "Star Wars"
U.S. government program responsible for research and development of a space-based system to defend the nation from attack by strategic ballistic missiles -
Reagan and Gorbachev Resolve To Remove All Intermediate Nuclear Missiles From Europe
The Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, commonly referred to as the INF (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty -
Berlin Wall Falls
In 1989, a radical series of political changes occurred in the Eastern Bloc.
After several weeks of civil unrest, the East German government announced on 9 November 1989 that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Crowds of East Germans crossed and climbed onto the wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere -
warsaw Pact ends
The military alliance between the Soviet Union and its eastern European satellites—comes to an end. The action was yet another sign that the Soviet Union was losing control over its former allies and that the Cold War was falling apart.
anti-Soviet and anticommunist movements throughout Eastern Europe began to crack the Warsaw Pact.
In 1990, East Germany left the Warsaw Pact in preparation for its reunification with West Germany -
USSR Dissolved--Cold War Ends
During 1989 and 1990, the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. With stunning speed, the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end
