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Yalta Conference meeting of FDR, Churchill, Stalin - the 'Big Three', Soviet Union has control of Eastern Europe. The Cold War Begins
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The United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima
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The United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
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Japanese surrender End of World War II
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communism & capitalism were incompatible
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Truman demands Russia leave Iran
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U.S. meet 19 Latin American countries and created a security zone around the hemisphere
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Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia
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NATO ratified
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Warsaw Pact formed
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USSR launches Sputnik 1
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The Kitchen Debate A-bombs developed by France
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John F. Kennedy elected President of USA
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Berlin border is closed
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Construction of Berlin Wall begins, U.S. involvement in Vietnam increases
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President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas
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President Johnson does not run for the presidency and Richard Nixon Elected President of the USA
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President Nixon resigns
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In 1975, the joint Apollo-Soyuz mission sent three U.S. astronauts into space aboard an Apollo spacecraft that docked in orbit with a Soviet-made Soyuz vehicle. When the commanders of the two crafts officially greeted each other, their “handshake in space” served to symbolize the gradual improvement of U.S.-Soviet relations in the late Cold War-era.
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North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam which falls to Communist forces
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Soviet forces invade Afghanistan
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U.S. troops invades and overthrows regime in Grenada
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President Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe
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Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan
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Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania, Decline of the Soviet empire
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End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends
