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Cold war begins
The meeting of the big three. The soveit union has control of Eastern Eroupe making the cold war start. -
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cold war
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Bomb
The united states dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima (20 kiloton bomb 'Little Boy' kills 80,000) -
Speech
Stalin hostile speech. He justifed all the policies inculding collectivization, industrialization. Thats what enabling us to win the war. -
Rio Pact
United states meet 19 Latin american countires and created a safe security zone around the hemisphere. -
Blockade
The blockade was the first major clash of the Cold War and foreshadowed future conflict over the city of Berlin. It lasted over 11 months. -
Korean war
The korean war began. Stalin supported north korea who invaded south korea with soviet weapons. -
KGB
KGB was establised. The KGB was the world’s largest spy and state-security machine, involved in all aspects of life of everyday people in the Soviet Union. -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. -
President
John F Kennedy was elected president. -
Berlin Wall
The berlin construction started to begin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany -
Dispatching
The United states dispatched about 200,000 troops to vietnam. -
Bombing raids
The US Secretary of Defence Robert McNamara admits that the US bombing raids had failed to meet their objectives. McNamara maintains that movement of supplies to South Vietnam has not been reduced, and neither the economy nor the morale of the North Vietnamese has been broken. -
SALT
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) agreements. At the time, these agreements were the most far-reaching attempts to control nuclear weapons ever. They had to adress the two major issues which where limiting the number of antiballistic missiles, and the number of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched. -
Wall Demolished
At this time the wall of berlin has been demolished and allowing unrestricted migrattion of East Germany to West Germany. -
War ends
End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends.
