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An estimated 166,000 people died in Hiroshima. -
An estimated 80,000 people died in Nagasaki in 1945. -
-The Truman doctrine is established, it consisted of the protection of the United States to the countries that were threatened by the Soviets. -The Marshall plan is carried out, which consisted of economic support in the recovery of the countries damaged in Europe by the war. -India's independence is granted by the British after a long struggle by Gandhi with the emblem of no direct confrontation. -
Allies occupy Germany and divided into four zones: American, Soviet, British, and French. A West German single economic area controlled by the western powers was created in the London Conferences. -
-NATO is created.
-Germany is divided into the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic.
-The war between Palestine and Israel ends with the Israeli victory. -
North Korean invasion of South Korea
-Chang Kai-Shek goes to Taiwan where he is elected president for life.
In 1952 The Federal Republic of Germany is officially vacated at the Berlin Conference
-Death of Stalin and Malenkov comes to power.
-Truman ends as president of the United States and Eisenhower begins with power.
-The Korean War ends in a draw. -
Both NATO and the Warsaw Pact led to the expansion of military forces and their integration into the respective blocs. -
After Stalin's death, Kruschev's reforms in the Soviet Union affected the Soviet Bloc countries. In Hungary, people began to criticise the regime openly. Soviet tanks entered the capital, Budapest, and brutally crushed the Hungarian Revolution. -
-The "Berlin wall" is built by the communist eastern part.
-EUA launches the “landing in Bahia Chinos” where anti-Castro members supported by the United States attack the island, but the Castro revolutionaries managed to carry out that attempt. -
In early 1962, the USA deployed several nuclear missiles in Turkey, within range of many Soviet cities. As a response, Khruschev secretly placed nuclear missiles in Cuba. -
-China enters the great confrontation of the 2 sides by having nuclear bombs.
-Khrushchev is removed from power and Brezhnev of the USSR enters power -
After the Cuban missile crisis, the USA and the USSR realized how close they had come to a nuclear war. So, in 1963, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, in space, or at the sea. -
A ceasefire was agreed in 1973, and American troops withdrew. -
The Vietnam War ends, where the northern part (communist part) achieves victory. -
-The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in the hope of expanding its influence
-The Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua overthrew the country's conservative dictatorship.
-The Islamic Revolution in Iran overthrew the shah of Iran who was an ally of the United States. A period of hostility began between Iran and the USA. -
-Gorbachev comes to power. In addition to performing perestroika (renovation, restructuring). -
The fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 was a pivotal event in world history that marked the fall of the Iron Curtain and the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe. -
After the fall of the Berlin wall, Germany reunified. -
On the 25th December 1991, Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union. This marked the break-up of the URRS and the end of the Cold War, a period in which the world had been divided into two opposing blocs.
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