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The Cold War

By adm6273
  • First Use

    First Use

    United States drop first atomic bomb (Little Boy) on Hiroshima

  • Russia joins the fight

    Russia joins the war against japan.
  • Second Use

    Second Use

    The United States drops second atomic bomb (Fat Man) on nagasaki, Japan.
  • Russia's Nuke

    Russia's Nuke

    Soviets explode first nuclear bomb known as RDS 1, First Lightning, and Joe-1.
  • Russian Inteligents

    Russian Inteligents

    in march 1954 the KGB was established.

  • Sputnik

    Russia send first Satilight into space codenamed sputnik.
  • Castro

    Castro

    Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro

  • Shot down

    Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    The cuban missile crisis was a period of time when the soviets sought to implant nuclear missiles into cuba. the U.S. responded by puting up a naval blockade deniing access to cuba from any vessels throught the crisis.

  • End in sight

    Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified which banned all nuclear testing except for underground testing

  • The End

    Communist governments fell in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania thus ending the Soviet empire and all their nuclear dreams.