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Cold War
The War of Nuclear Weapons -
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World War 2
The end of World War 2 -
Germany Surrenders
Nazi Germany surrenders to allied forces -
WW2 Ends
The Japanese Empire surrenders after the nuclear strikes on Hiroshima & Nagasaki -
The Marshal Plan
A plan to replenish European economys so Communist Russia doesn't overtake europe -
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Berlin Blockade
A blockade to prevent western allies from supplting Berlin giving the Soviet Union control of Berlin -
NATO Established Military
North Atlantic Treaty Organization ratafies as a Military Organization -
Communists in China
Communist rise to power and take China -
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Warsaw Pact
A treaty which bound the eastern states of Europe and the USSR into basically an alliance -
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Rebellion in Hungary
USSR controlled Hungary, Hungary rebelled against Comunisim -
USSR launches Sputnik
USSR launches Sputnik a sattlite into space -
Fidel Castro takes over Cuba
Fidel Castro takes control of Communist Cuba which leads to the Cuban Missle Crisis -
JFK
President John F. Kennedy Elected president in USA -
Berlin Wall
The Construction of the Berlin wall begins -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Fidel Castro working with the USSR has brought nuclear missles from Russia which threatened the USA -
NASA (USA in space)
USA lands first man on the moon -
SALT I Nuclear Treaty
Debates between the Soviet Union and the USA over the use of nuclear arms -
Reagan SDI ("star wars")
President Reagan reveals Strategic Defense Initiative.
A system to protect the United States from Soviet Balistic Missles -
USA & USSR
both nations USA and the USSR agreed on moving all immediate nuclear missles from Europe -
Poland becomes independant
After WW2 poland was under Communist control via USSR, after 35 years poland becomes independant once again. -
Berlin Wall
Now the wall that divides Berlin in 2 falls and Germany begins to Unite it's people -
Germany Unties
The German people, with the destruction of the Berlin wall, now return to full power of their own country -
END OF THE COLD WAR
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republican's Government Dissolves ending the Soviet Union.
The end of the Soviet Union ended the cold war that lasted decades.
Note: Formaly Dissolved on December 25th 1991
