Cold War

US Uses Atomic Bombs on Japan to End WWII. 1945.

1945

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/presidential-inquiries/decision-drop-atomic-bomb

Berlin Blockade and Airlift.

1948

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/berlin-airlift

USSR Tests First Nuclear Weapon.

1949

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/bomb-soviet-tests/

US Tests First Hydrogen Bomb.

1950

https://www.britannica.com/video/132217/operation-code-Mike-weapon-Enewetak-atoll-Marshall-November-1-1952#:~:text=In%20an%20operation%20code%2Dnamed,Islands%2C%20November%201%2C%201952.&text=What%20was%20the%20Manhattan%20Project%3F

Korean War.

1950

https://www.history.com/topics/asian-history/korean-war

The Space Race Begins.

1957

https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/space-race

USSR Tests the largest Nuclear Weapon Ever Built.

1960

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tsar-Bomba

Vietnam War.

1965

https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-history

Cuban Missile Crisis

1983

https://titanmissilemuseum.org/about/cold-war-timeline/