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President Truman was warned by many officials that if they were to invade Japan it would be the end of the American army, so in order to gain an advantange the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima.
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The World War that casued the Holocasut and many people to lose their lives finally ends on September 2nd 1945.
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The communists invaded Polands landowners property in order to gain power, which ultimatley did not help them.
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After the Soviets block the land routes into West Berlin so the United States begins a massive airlift containing of a years supply of food, water, and medicine for the besieged city.
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The NATO or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was founded in order to have acollective defense against the Soviet Union.
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In August of 1949 the Soviet Union successfully detonates its first atomic bomb. The Soviet scientists created buildings, bridges, and other civilian structures in order see how the bomb would affect it.
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the Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
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The successful launch of the unmanned satellite Sputnik I by the Soviet Union in October 1957 frightened many Americans. They Americans were shocked that the Soviets could have gotten so far ahead of the supposedly technologically superior United States.
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Code named, Operation Urgent Fury, which ended with a US victory in a matter of weeks.
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The German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany,