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end of ww2
The surrendering of Japan, after Nagisaki and Hiroshima. -
Arms Race
This event started when the world relized the power of Atomic weapons. -
Marshall Plan
The US gave $13 billion dolars to Europe after WWII to help rebuild Europe. -
USSR developes their 1st atomic weapon
The ussr creates their 1st atomic bomb. tension rises. -
Space Race
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability. -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on October 4, 1957. -
Birth of NASA
The driving force, of course, was the launch of Sputnik on Oct. 4, 1957, followed by its even weightier successors. This led on Feb. 6, 1958 to the establishment of a Senate Special Committee on Space and Aeronautics -
Fidel Castro takes controll of Cuba
Fidel Castro over throws the Batista, to become the leader. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
