WWII-cold war

By emmataylor
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    WWII-cold war

  • A ceasefire was announced in Greece between government forces and ELAS guerrillas; this agreement was confirmed by the government on 12 February.

  • first atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima, Japan

    first atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima, Japan

  • USSR enters war against Japan

  • second atomic bomb dropped on nagasaki, Japan

  • V-J (Victory over Japan) Day.

  • Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" speech

  • "Sinews of Peace" Iron Curtain Speech by Winston Churchill - "an "iron curtain" has descended on Europe"

  • Feb - Voice of America begins regular broadcasts to the Soviet Union from Munich, Manila and Honolulu.

  • Soviet Union begins jamming Voice of America broadcasts.

  • After a joint repudiation of Soviet note the North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington by Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States.

  • Russia tested its first atomic bomb

  • Senate give approval for first US troop deployments to NATO.

  • British Government announced it intention to test an atomic weapon produced in Britain.

  • Eisenhower wins American presidential elections.

  • June 4 Nuclear Arms Race atomic test series of 11 explosions at Nevada Test Site

  • President Eisenhower declares United States will not be the first to use hydrogen bombs.

  • The Federal Republic of Germany officially becomes a member of NATO.

  • By way of reply to accession of Federal Republic of Germany to NATO the USSR concludes the Warsaw Pact with its European satellites - Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania.

  • Voice of America broadcasts Khrushchev's 'secret speech' denouncing Stalin.

  • Soviets Put Man-Made Moon in Orbit!

  • De Gaulle declares that France will withdraw from NATO.

  • U.S. U2 spy plane shot down over Russia

  • John F. Kennedy elected President

  • berlin wall built

    berlin wall built

    specific date was not mentioned

  • soviets launch first man in space

    specific date was not mentioned

  • USSR astronaut Gagarin first to orbit Earth

  • Berlin border closed

  • Construction of Berlin Wall begins

  • US Army Europe troop strength peaksat 277,342 for the Cold War era

  • Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified

  • Three U.S. Astronauts Killed During Simulated Launch

    no specific date

  • Apollo 11 lands on the moon

  • Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon

    Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon

    no specific date

  • U.S. lands first man on moon

  • SALT I nuclear treaty signed

    date in july not mentioned

  • President Nixon resigns

  • Jimmy Carter is sworn in as US president

  • SALT II nuclear treaty signed

    date in july not mentioned

  • Ronald Reagan elected president

  • Sally Ride Becomes the First American Woman in Space

    Sally Ride Becomes the First American Woman in Space

    no specific date

  • Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes

    no specific date
  • chernobyl nuclear accident

    chernobyl nuclear accident

  • President Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe

    the specific date was not mentioned

  • Berlin Wall Falls

    no specific date

  • End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends

    the specific date was not mentioned