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With Soviets and Americans in Berlin, Germany surrenders. Victory Europe day marks the end of the World War in Europe.
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In Feburary, Stalin stated that war between Eastern Europe and Western Europe was bound to happen. This made the world un-easy and set a precedent for the relations between East and West.
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The Marshall Plan was a plan to help Europe rebuild. This helped Europe make a rapid recovery while having a democratic capitalist influence on the nation.
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The Nuremberg trials lasted from 1945 to 1949. THese trials were to charge Germans with the war crimes they comitted, most being during the event of the Holocaust.
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In 1949 the soviets had tested their first Nuclear bomb. This weapon of mass destruction would lead to an arms race between the U.S. and USSR. The Nuclear bomb would become a symbol of military power and a tool of deterence.
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In 1949, about 1,000 people per day were immigrating from Eastern Germany to Western Germany. To stop this, the soviets constructed A wall to divide the West from East.
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In the 1950 the Korean War started. North Korea was a communist Nation with Soviet Support, and The South was supported by the United States. This is a important confrontation between both The U.S. and the USSR.
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In responce the the Soviet successful launch of Sputnik in 1957, NASA was created to regain technological dominance over the USSR. This would result in the Space Race.
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Soviets had put nuclear arms on Fidel Castro controlled Cuba. This meant the USSR was in striking distance of the U.S. with nuclear weapons. This lead to a massive scare in the Cold War.
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After the fall of the BErlin wall in 1989, republics of the USSR declared independence. Soon the USSR would crumble and Russia would move to reverse its communist ways.
