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VE Day
V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (7 May in Commonwealth realms) to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.[1] It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe. -
Hirashima
First atomic bomd dropped atnNagasaki in August 1945, during the final stage of World War II. -
VJ Day
The end of WWll. The Japanses surrender. -
Vietnam war
After Japanese surrender in WWII Vietnamese communist declares independence of Vietnam from France. -
Formation of West Germany
ivided into four sectors, with the Western Allies joining their sectors to form West Berlin, while the Soviets held East Berlin. -
Vietnam War
American troops had entered the war on South Korea’s behalf. As far as American officials were concerned, it was a war against the forces of international communism itself. After some early back-and-forth across the 38th parallel, the fighting stalled and casualties mounted with nothing to show for them. Meanwhile, American officials worked anxiously to fashion some sort of armistice with the North Koreans. The alternative, they feared, would be a wider war with Russia and China–or even, as some -
Death of Stalin
73 years of age, had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died at 9:50 p.m. on March 5, 1953. Stalin's body was washed by a nurse and then carried via a white car to the Kremlin mortuary. -
Warsaw Pact
Treaty of Friendship between Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Hungarian Revolution
Soviet victory; revolution crushed -
Space Race
Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union USSR and the United States US for supremacy in spaceflight capability. -
JFK Assination
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot twice, and an hour after his death Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the crime. -
Vietnam War
150000 US Troops sent to Vietnam
