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Gary Power
(His birth was the date)Francis Gary Powers was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident. -
Big 3 Meet
'Big Three' meet at Yalta. On 3 February 1945, Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt arrived at Yalta, a resort on the southern coast of the Crimea on the Black Sea. They were there to meet with Stalin to discuss the final attack on the Germans and Japanese and the future of the post-war world. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down -
First Attomic Bomb
By the summer of 1945, Oppenheimer was ready to test the first bomb. On July 16, 1945, at Trinity Site near Alamogordo, New Mexico, scientists of the Manhattan Project readied themselves to watch the detonation of the world's first atomic bomb. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a policy set forth by U.S. President Harry S Truman on March 12, 1947 stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere. -
Marshall Plan
The marshall plan was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War and the first cold war international crisis that resulted in a casualty. -
Berlin Airlift
Berlin blockade and airlift, international crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union, in 1948–49, to force the Western Allied powers (the United States, the United Kingdom, and France) to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin. -
Arms Race
The arms race before the First World War describes a race towards better weapons. Germany and Britain mostly, but also most major countries at the time (such as the USA, Japan and France), were competing with each other to have the best armed forces. It was mostly a naval arms race -
Joseph Stalin Dies
. He was believed to have suffered a stroke on the 1st of March before finally succumbing to a brain haemorrhage five days later. -
Korean War
South and North Korea had been split in two after ww2. Both the leaders of the two states claimed to be ruler of the whole of Korea. This caused tensions. USSR supported North Korea who were communist. And America supported south Korea who were anti communist. -
Nakita Khrushchev Comes to Power
Khrushchev was still in a very weak position until 1956, his rivals had the backing of important ministries or elements within the military. He HAD to discredit his rivals - and the best ammunition that he had was that they were closer to Stalin than he was. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War also known as the Second Indochina War and known by the Vietnamese as the American War, was a Cold War era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from December 1956 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975 -
Srace Race
The space race was essentially what you just described, a rocketeering contest between the US and the USSR. -
U-2 Inceident
By international law,you have to have permission before entering the airspace of a foreign country.At the same time,the CIA needed an accurate count of all soviet missile silos in the heart of Russia.Francis Gary Powers was a pilot working for the CIA and was shot down during a recon flight over Russia. -
JFK Became Presadent
John F. Kennedy. On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected presadent. -
First Person In Space
The Vostok 3KA-3 spacecraft awaits the launch of Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961, which would make him the first human to travel into space. Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the world's first space traveler. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
On April 17, 1961, 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
Berlin Wall
During the early years of the Cold War, West Berlin was a geographical loophole through which thousands of East Germans fled to the democratic West. In response, the Communist East German authorities built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin. THE BERLIN WALL FELL ON NOVEMBER 9 1989. -
Gunter Litfin Death
He was trying to go from one side of berlin to the pother and he was the first man shot to death trying to cross the wall. He was shot in the back of his head. -
Rudolph Abel
He took the place and was exchanged for gary powers.the famous spy exchange between U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers and Soviet spy Rudolph Abel on the Glienicker Bridge in Potsdam, Germany -
Cuban Missile Crisis
USSR was a 13 day confrontation in October 1962 between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other side. The crisis is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict and is also the first documented instance of mutual assured destruction being discussed as a determining factor in a major international arms agreement. -
JFK Dies
He was shot by a man as he was with his wife in a parade. He was the youngest to die. -
Nakita Khrushchev
Nakita died from a large hart attaick. -
Gary Powers Death
Gary powers died in a helecopter crash. -
Soviet Invasion Of Afghanistan
At the end of December 1979, the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. -
Mikhail Gorbachev Comes To Power
A lot of people were in line to be General Secretary before him, but most of them were old and died very quickly after they came to power, leading the Politburo to elect him into the position as he was the youngest (but by no means the least able) of the available candidates in 1985. -
INF Treaty
The longer range, greater accuracy, mobility and striking power of the new Soviet missile was perceived to alter the security of Western Europe. After discussions, NATO agreed to a two part strategy firstly to pursue arms control negotiations with the Soviet Union to reduce their and the American INF arsenals; secondly to deploy in Europe from 1983 up to 464 ground-launched cruise missiles and 108 Pershing II ballistic missiles. -
U.S.S.R. Breakup
The old soviets didn't like the reforms, kidnapped Gorbachev and his family, and sent tanks into Red Square, where the President of the Russian Republic, Boris Yeltsin, was seen all over the world standing in front of a tank to make it stop. It stopped, and the rest of the Red Army gave up because they could no longer treat their own people that way. -
German Reunification
now the flag of a reunited Germany was raised above the Brandenburg Gate marking the moment of German reunification.
