First atomic bomb

The Atomic Bomb

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    The Atomic Bomb

  • Niel Bohr Announces the Discovery of Fission

    Niel Bohr Announces the Discovery of Fission

    The announcement of nuclear fission opened a gateway to the building of the Atomic Bomb.
  • Scientists discover how to extract uranium-235

    Scientists discover how to extract uranium-235

    Scientist Harold Urey and his colleagues figured out how to extract U-235 through the principle of gaseous diffusion
  • FDR Approves the Development of the Atomic Bomb

    FDR Approves the Development of the Atomic Bomb

    This was the beginning of the end for the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  • $2 Million authorized to build the Atomic Bomb

    $2 Million authorized to build the Atomic Bomb

  • YALTA Conference/ the Cold War Begins

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    Cold War

  • President Truman Approves the use of the Atomic Bomb

    President Truman Approves the use of the Atomic Bomb

  • Little Boy Dropped on Hiroshima

    Little Boy Dropped on Hiroshima

  • Russia declares war on Japan

    Victory in Europe. Germany surrenders to the Red Army in Berlin.
  • Fatman Dropped on Nagasaki

    Fatman Dropped on Nagasaki

    The Atomic Bomb "Fatman" killed an estimated 40,000 people.

  • Atomic Energy Act Made

    After the power of the atomic bomb was shown, congress made the Atomic Energy Act. It's the fundamental U.S. law which lays the boundaries for both civilian and military uses of nuclear materials
  • "Iron curtain/ Sinews of Peace" speech by Winston Churchill

    "Iron curtain/ Sinews of Peace" speech by Winston Churchill

    Winston Churchill delivered the "Sinews of Peace" speach that dropped the Iron Curtain that divided Europe for 44 years.
  • Operation Crossroads with Test Able

    Operation Crossroads with Test Able

    First public demonstration of America's atomic arsenal above ground.
  • America's Test "Baker"

    America's Test "Baker"

    Footage of tests "Able" and "Baker"Underwater atomic explosion

  • Truman Doctrine created

  • NATO ratified

    NATO ratified

  • Russia tests their first atomic bomb

    Russia tests their first atomic bomb

  • Truman approves H-bomb

  • Federal Civil Defense Administration established

  • A-Bombs Developed by Britain

    A-Bombs Developed by Britain

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    Nuclear Arms Race

    The race between the US and the USSR (Russia) to gain the most powerful arsenal of h-bombs and missiles.

  • Ike's "Atoms for Peace" speech

    Atoms for Peace Speech Transcript
    Eisenhower's speech confronting the government about nations stockpiling and testing atomic bombs and other weapons.

  • H-bomb Castle-Bravo test

  • Warsaw Pact Formed

  • Castro Takes Over Cuba

    Castro Takes Over Cuba

  • France developed A-Bombs

    France developed A-Bombs

  • Kennedy Elected

    Kennedy Elected

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • Berlin Wall Construction Begins

    Berlin Wall Construction Begins

  • Missiles Removed from Cuba and Turkey

    Missiles Removed from Cuba and Turkey

  • Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Ratified

  • A-Bombs Developed by China

    A-Bombs Developed by China

  • President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia

  • SALT I Signed

    SALT I was made to repalce the Inerim Agreement, and set broad limits on strategic offensive weapons systems.

  • Vietnam Peace Treaty Signed

  • U.S. helps overthrow Chile government

  • Vietnam War Ends

  • SALT II Signed

    SALT II

  • President Reagan proposes Strategic Defense Initiative

  • Mikhail Gorbachev ascends to power in Soviet Union

  • Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe

  • Reagan and Gorbachev agree to sign a treaty that removes all medium and short-range nuclear missiles

  • Berlin Wall Falls

  • Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania

    The Soviet empire falls.