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The US atomic bombs on Japan to end WWII.
The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. -
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Berlin blockaded.
The Berlin blockade was the closure of the borders shared by the United Kingdom and the United States with the Soviet Union on German-occupied territory. -
USSR Test First Nuclear Weapon.
the Soviet Union carried out the Bomb test, a hydrogen bomb that was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested. -
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Korean War
The Korean War was a war that took place on the Korean border, where the Republic of Korea fought, supported by the armed forces of several countries. -
US Test First Hydrogen Bomb.
The United States detonates the world's first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, on the Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific. The test gave the United States a short-lived advantage in the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union. -
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly, and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its main ally, the United States. -
The Space race Begins.
This was a Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop aerospace capabilities, including artificial satellites, unmanned space probes, and human spaceflight. -
Berlin Wall Divides Germany.
The Berlin Wall was built by the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War to prevent its population from escaping from Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis.
it was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to a nuclear conflict. -
Titan II ICBMS Deployed.
The most famous use of the civilian Titan II was in NASA's Gemini manned space capsule program in the mid-1960s. -
"Hot Line" Established Between US and USSR.
John F. Kennedy becomes the first President of the United States to have a direct phone line to the Kremlin in Moscow. The "hot line" was designed to facilitate communication between the president and the Soviet premier. -
Able Arched and The War Scare.
Soviet intelligence watched the event with particular interest, suspecting that the United States might carry out a nuclear attack under the guise of a drill. Able Archer's realism was ironically effective: he was designed to simulate the start of nuclear war, and many argue that he almost did. -
Last Titan II Comes Off Alert.
Titan II missiles were designed to be launched from underground missile silos that were hardened against nuclear attack. This was intended to allow the United States to withstand a nuclear first strike by an enemy and to be able to retaliate with a second strike response. -
Berlin Wall Comes Down.
Nearly half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a massive protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany collapsed. East German leaders had tried to quell the growing protests by relaxing the borders, making travel easier for East Germans. -
Soviet Union Collapses- Cold War Ends
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the process of internal disintegration within the Soviet Union, resulting in the end of the country's existence and of its federal government as a sovereign state, resulting in the full independence of its constituent republics.