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Cold War
Cold WarThe Cold war started in 1947. It started because of tensions between the military and political powers, between the U.S. and the Soveit Union. -
Russian"s bomb
Russia tested it's first atoic bomb, and the blockades were ended. -
A-bombs developed by Britain
Britain successfully tests its first atomic bomb at the Monte Bello Islands in austrailia.There where about 50 British scientists and engineers worked on the successful U.S. atomic bomb program. -
Bomb site
11 bombs were tested at the nevada test site, making mushrooms in the sky with the smoke of the bomb. -
KGB formed
KGB formed, (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti or Committee for State Security). It was a security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until the end of 1991. -
War Saw Pact
The War Saw Pact was formed. The War Saw was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe -
Sputnik launched into orbit
The Soviet Union launched it into orbit on 4 October 1957. It was visible all around the Earth.The surprise success precipitated the American Sputnik crisis, began the Space Age. -
Explorer I launched
Was the first Earth satellite of the United States.The mission followed the first two Earth satellites the previous year the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 and 2 beginning the Cold War Space Race between the two nations. -
Spy Plane
Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 landed on the moon with three americans as passengers. (Neil Armstrong,Michael Collins, and Edwin " Buzz" Aldrin) -
SALT II signed
In 1977Jimmy Carter the new elected President attempted to renegotiate the SALT II Treaty in order to reduce the number of Soviet Missiles. It took until 1979 for precise figures to be agreed and the SALT II treaty was signed by Brezhnev and Carter in June of that year. -
Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan
In the first three-month period it was reported that some 50,183 foreign troops had withdrawn. Another 50,100 left between 15 August 1988 and 15 February 1989.The whole time during the withdrawal over the border troop convoys were coming under attack by Afghan fighters. In all 523 Soviet soldiers were killed during the withdrawal. -
The End
The soviet union and the cold war ended.
