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World War II ends in Europe.
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Winston Churchills "Iron Curtain" speech marks beginning of the Cold War
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March- Truman Doctrine announced.
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Aug- Soviet Union Explodes its first atomic bomb. On October Communists win Chinese Civil War.
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July- First summit meeting between president Dwight Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev
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when sputnik was first launched, they made the first sattelite which was the size of the beach ball.
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John F. Kennedy was the youngest man ever to be elected.
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Cubans Missle Crisis happened
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The Apollo 11 mission was one of the most significant events in the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union
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South Vietnam, fell to North Vietnamese forces on April 30th ... North and it was an inevitability that Saigon would fall to communist forces.
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