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Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin.
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Germany was split at the end of World War II going into the Cold War. Germany eventually evolved into two seperate nations East Germany.
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was fought from 1946 to 1949 between the Greek government army, backed by the United Kingdom and the United States
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. The Truman Doctrine effectively reoriented U.S. foreign policy, away from its usual stance of withdrawal from regional conflicts not directly involving the United States, to one of possible intervention in far away conflicts.
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The Marshall Plan successfully sparked economic recovery, meeting its objective of ‘restoring the confidence of the European people in the economic future of their own countries and of Europe as a whole
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At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany.
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In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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it came as a great shock to the United States because they were not expecting the Soviet Union to possess nuclear weapon knowledge so soon
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was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union.
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an initialism for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its break-up in 1991
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was a political and military alliance established on May 14, 1955 between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries.
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was the first artificial Earth satellite
