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The Cold War

By yaniciasalas214
  • Beginning of Cold War/Bombing of Hiroshima

    Beginning of Cold War/Bombing of Hiroshima

    This was significant in the start of the Cold War because it showed the Soviet Union and the world that the U.S has nuclear weapons.
  • USSR develops atomic bomb

    USSR develops atomic bomb

    Created an atomic bomb incase of possible war between U.S. and the USSR
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    It was the first time two big superpowers, United States and the Soviet Union had a "proxy war" in a third country
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    Vietnam was a battleground for the U.S. and the Soviet Union as they fought for world domination
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

    Space Race. U.S. feared the Soviet Union was more advanced in technology.
  • Cuban Missle Crisis

    Cuban Missle Crisis

    Leaders of U.S and Soviet Union were in a 13-day political and military standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba,
  • Ping Pong Diplomacy

    Ping Pong Diplomacy

    A group of ping pong players became the first Americans to visit Communist China and is credited with starting the process of thawing the long-frozen relations between the two countries.
  • Soviet-Afghan War

    Soviet-Afghan War

    The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anti-communist Muslim guerrillas
  • Tianamen square massacre

    Tianamen square massacre

    Student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing during 1989
  • Collapse of the Soviet Union

    Collapse of the Soviet Union

    The Soviet Union broken into 15 separate republics making U.S. the new super power.