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Represantiives from 50 countries met in San Francisco to establish a new organazation the United Nations, the UN was made to promote peace and cooperation amongst the nations.
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The central intellegince agency or CIA was formed in order to collect information and spy on other countries
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House un-american activities began to explore possible communist influence in American film. Ten writers and directors were thought to hold radical political views, they were questioned and refused to answer for that they were put in jail and their movie carrers were ruined.
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The Soviet Union blocked all road ,rail, and river traffic into west Berlin within days of the Soviet blockade British and American airplanes began to send supplies into west Berlin.
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North Korean troops invade South Korea marking the beggening of the Korean war
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General Douglas MacArthur world war 2 hero gets fired for his radical ideas of using the nuclear bomb and invading china, the country was shocked and devistaded.
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A new type of nucleatr weapon was formed known as the hydrogen bomb its desructive powers made an island vanish and scientest think twice about building it.
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The U.S Navy launched the first nuclear powered submarine witch was able to travel for months without the need to refuel.
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Jonas Stalk dedicated his life to science and to look for the vaccine to polio witch he achieved in 1955 when he announceed it to the pdublic
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Nuclear energy wwas now able to be harnesed for electricity and nuclear power plants stared popping up across the country witch were used to supply homes and buissnes with electicity
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President Jhon F. Kennedy was inaugurated as president being the youngest president of the time
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President Kennedy gave the go ahead for the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, witch ended in disaster and gave the Soviet Union stronger ties with Cuba
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The Berlin wall was placed between East and West Belin because Kennedy refused to withdraw from west Berlin at Khrushchev's command
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A U2 American plane was shot down while spieng in Cuba leading to as blockad, blocking the Soiet Union from entering Cuba. Both the U.S ans the Soviet Union were at the brink of war however they ultimatly came to an agreement that if the U.S never attacks Cuba the Soviet Union will take down their missiles that they had in Cuba.
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President Kennedy was assasinated whle in a open car his death left the nation torn up and shocked.
