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The Yalta Confrence
The aim of the Yalta Conference was to discuss the outcome of WW2 in Europe. It was attended by The Big Three: Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosvelt and Joseph Stalin. They decided that Germany would be divided into four sections, one for each of the three and one for France, and they would also be demillitarised. It was also agreed that the USSR would enter war against Japan. -
Atomic Bomb / Russia declares war
The USA drop two atomic bombs on Japan, the first on 6th August in Hiroshima, the second on the 9th in Nagasaki. In the first two to four months of the bombings, 90,000–166,000 people died in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki. -
End of WW2
Japan was facing total destruction after the atomic bombings. Emperor Hirohito sent out a radio broadcast, just six days after the second bombing, to his nation of Japan informing that they surrender. With the surrender of both Germany and now Japan, the war ends. -
Siniews of Peace
Winston Churchill gives America his "Iron Curtain Speech" in which he says that Europe has been divided into two parts. A communist section and a democratic section. On the East side of the 'Iron Curtain' were the countries that were connected to the former Soviet Union. Both sides developed their own alliances. -
Soviet Union Detonates Atomic Bomb
The Soviet Union detonates their first atomic bomb test, code named "First ightning". The program was started by Joseph Stalin after recieving a letter from a proffessor advising him to do so. It was suspected many other allied forces had begun nuclear research already. After the Japanese bombings the Soviet Union was able to expand their research to develop a nuclear device and destroy American nuclear weapon efforts. -
Warsaw Pact formed
The Warsaw Pact was one of the Soviet Union's main ways off East European allies under its control. It was driven by the Soviet Union's need to prevent another Invasion. The Warsaw Pact was made up of eight communist states of central Europe: Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union and Albania. -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was built August 13, 1961. It was a physicall division between West Berlin and East Germany to stop people from fleeing from East Germany to the West. The wall included guard towers and large concrete walls. It was a symbol of the Iron curtain. -
The End of The Cold War
Pressures escalated within the Soviet Union in late 1989, and Communism fell. The USSR officially dissolved in late 1991 ending The Cold War. The United States remained as the world's only superpower.
