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Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The significance is that this atomic bomb was first used against humans, the two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
delivered vital supplies and relief to West Berlin -
Korean War. 1950-1953.
additional territory and demilitarizing the zone between the two nations. -
US Tests First Hydrogen Bomb
gave the United States a short-lived advantage in the nuclear arms race -
The Space Race Begins
first artificial satellite -
Vietnam War
killed many people -
Cuban Missile Crisis
the closest we ever came to a nuclear war -
Russians Invade Afghanistan
The US supported Afghanistan, providing weapons, then leaving when the Soviets gave up. The Us leaving without helping Afghanistan rebuild the devastation led to much resentment towards the US and eventually the rise of the Taliban -
Perestroika/ Glastnost
2 soviet policies made by Gorbachev that attempted to make them more like the west. His own people resisted -
Tiananmen square Massacre
Inspired protesters in the USSR, which then lead to the collapse of the soviet union