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Meeting of FDR, Churchill, Stalin -
US effectively ends WWII by dropping two atomic bombs on Japan
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Japan surrenders, ending the second world war officially -
Marshall Plan is announced setting a precedent for helping countries combat poverty, disease and malnutrition -
active role in greek civil war -
U.S. meet 19 Latin American countries and created a security zone -
the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, with Soviet backing, assumed undisputed control over the government of Czechoslovakia. It marked the onset of four decades of the party's rule in the country. -
Created to assist finding soviet spies -
The blockade lasted 11 months -
Berlin was located in the Eastern Soviet sector, its control was also divided between the Western powers and the USSR. In June of 1948, the USSR attempted to gain control of the entire city by cutting off all traffic to West Berlin. The United States responded with a daily airlift of food and supplies into the city. The airlift lasted until September of 1949. the western allied powers would deliver 2.3 million tons of supplies and fuel to West Berlin during the airlift. -
The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. -
Mao Zedong takes control -
The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and rebellions in South Korea -
witch hunts and loyalty tests begin -
The United States detonates the first hydrogen bomb at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. It is 500 times more powerful than the Nagasaki bomb. -
The world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, marking the start of the space race. -
The USSR rocketed to the lead in the Cold War's "Space Race" with the launch of Sputnik, a basketball-sized satellite that became the first manmade object to orbit the Earth -
Lasted from 1959 to 1975, the ussr and china backed communist north Vietnam, while the US backed south vietnam -
Known as the big ivan in the USSR and the TSAR bomba in the US
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Late on August 12, in an effort to stem the tide of defectors, Soviet Premier Khrushchev gave the East German government permission to stop the flow of emigrants by closing its border for good. -
On October 16, 1962, President John F. Kennedy was briefed by the CIA that an American U-2 spy plane had taken photographs of Soviet nuclear missile launch sites under construction in Cuba. Over the next 13 days the Cuban Missile Crisis would unfold, bringing the US and the former Soviet Union the closest we have ever been to nuclear war. -
The largest land-based missile ever deployed by the US, the Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile was 103 feet tall and 10 feet in diameter. The Titan II could launch from its underground silo in just 58 seconds and it carried the W-53 warhead with a yield of 9 megatons (9,000,000 tons of TNT). -
The Cuban Missile Crisis prompted the US and USSR to set up a direct line of communication between the two countries to enable rapid and direct communication between them in crisis situations
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In early November of 1983 the world may have come closer to nuclear war than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis. NATO was conducting what it considered a routine exercise named Able Archer, a simulation designed to train and test the procedures for shifting from conventional to nuclear war. However, the Soviet Union interpreted the exercise as a prelude to a first strike by the United States -
The last titan missile came off of alert, signaling the end of the war cold war is approaching -
The berlin wall was teared down, millions of germans celebrate as their country is united again -
on December 8, 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. The president of the Russian Republic, Boris Yeltsin, formed the Commonwealth of Independent states. After 45 years, the Cold War, the longest war in US history, was over.