Cold War

  • U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

  • The United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

  • The Japanese surrendered bringing World War Two to an end.

  • Ho Chi Minh proclaimed Vietnam an independent republic.

  • Churchill delivers his 'Sinews of Peace' speech which contain the famous phrase "..an iron curtain has descended on Europe"

  • President Truman promised to help any country facing a Communist takeover

  • Marshall Plan

  • The USSR set up Cominform

  • The French, USA and UK partitions of Germany were merged to form West Germany

  • Berlin Blockade

  • NATO formed

  • End of Berlin Blockade

  • Korean War

  • Death of Stalin

  • Korean War

  • Warsaw Pact

  • Hungarian Revolution

  • Suez Crisis

  • USSR Sputnik II carried Laika the dog, the first living creature to go into space.

  • Russian cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyvich Gagarin became the first human being in space.

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • Berlin wall built and borders sealed between East and West Germany.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • JFK Assassination

  • Nikita Krushchev removed from office. He was replaced by Leonid Brezhnev.