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Hitlers suicide
On April 30 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler’s dreams of a “1,000-year” Reich. -
WW2 ends
After the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan they were forced to finally surrender ending WW2. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy to stop Soviet imperialism during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman -
Berlin airleft
on June 24, 1948, Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany. on May 12, 1949 Soviet forces lifted the blockade on land access to western Berlin. -
(NATO) established
(NATO) was
established by 12 Western nations: the United States, Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Iceland, Canada, and Portugal. The military alliance, which provided for a collective self-defense against Soviet aggression, greatly increased American influence in Europe.Greece, Turkey, and West Germany later joined. -
The Warsaw Pact
A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 by the Soviet Union in response to NATO, the Warsaw Pact called for the neighboring states to Come to the defense of any member attacked by an out side force
including Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Albania and the Soviet Union. -
cuban missle crisis
In October 1962, an American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of cuba. He met in secret with his advisors for several days to discuss the problem.After many long and difficult meetings, Kennedy decided to place a naval blockade, or a ring of ships, around Cubahis "quarantine," was to prevent the Soviets from bringing in more military supplies. -
Tiananmen square massacre
Chinese troops storm through Tiananmen Square in the center of Beijing fire arm on Nonviolent and unarmed students protesting pro-democracy they wet confronted by military troops. 241 people were killed, and estimates of the death toll are into the thousands. -
Berlin Wall
.Barbed-wire fencing went up August 13, 1961, followed by the concrete wall. The Berlin Wall was the defining symbol of the Cold War, separating families and keeping the people from jobs and opportunity in the west. Bright lights lit the area at night, and electrified fences kept vehicles and people away. soldiers watched the wall in watchtowers along the wall. -
The end of the soviet union
On December 24, 1991 the Soviet Union was at its end . Mikhail Gorbachev announced his resignation. The Soviet Union divided up into 15 separate countries including:Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia,Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova,Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan. -
Cold War ends
After 45 years the Cold War was over.
