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the Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
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The united states gave aid money to smaller countries to make capitalism more appealing and communism seen as the revolting beast it is.The event was a reaction to Russia's hostility towards smaller European countries and was a big deal in terms of support.
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At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany.
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Democrat Harry S. Truman defeated Republican Thomas E. Dewey to win the 1948 presidential election.
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At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name “First Lightning”. In retaliation to American's Atomic bomb it was a reaction. The event was a big deal because Russia now had equal power and was no longer at the mercy of the United states.
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The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea
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President Truman fired MacArthur and replaced him with Gen. Matthew Ridgeway.
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The device was the first full test of the Teller-Ulam design, a staged fusion bomb, and was the first successful test of a hydrogen bomb.
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His political life as a dictator who dominated millions has been minutely dissected over the decades. But his last days continue to provoke speculation and argument if he was poisoned or not. His death my have been a reaction by the United states government to protect the intrest of the country, Stalin's death was a big deal and a good thing for the Russian public.
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, are executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining,
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The Suez Crisis, also named the Tripartite Aggression and the Kadesh Operation, was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France.
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McCarthy died at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland on May 2, 1957, at the age of 48. The official cause of death was acute hepatitis. McCarthy's death came as a shock and big suprise to soviet generals.
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Explorer 1 was launched on January 31, 1958 at 22:48 Eastern Time (equal to February 1, 03:48 UTC) atop the first Juno booster from LC-26 at the Cape Canaveral Missile Annex, Florida.
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An armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement and its allies against the authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. This was a big deal in the eyes of the soviets who were by chance looking for a small island to hide nuclear missiles.
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during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace.
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on spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. During the flight, the 27-year-old test pilot and industrial technician also became the first man to orbit the planet, a feat accomplished by his space capsule in 89 minutes.
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the Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic.
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known as one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war The United States and the Soviet Union had a confrontation regarding the presence of missile sites in Cuba. This came as a reaction to the United states having missile sights in Europe, and was a big deal in the cold war.
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The discovery of super weapons began the arms race between Russia and the united states otherwise know as the "cold war". The causation of this time period was both sides trying to out do each other.
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Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower was the landslide winner, ending a string of Democratic wins that stretched back to 1932. As a result of American votes, it was a big deal because Eisenhower was the first republican president in a long time.
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.
