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Yalta Conference
It Occurs, Deciding The Post-War Stadus OF Germany. The Allies Of World War II(The USA, The USSR, Great British And France) Divide Germany Into Four Occupations Zones. -
Truman Gives Permission
He gave permission for the world's second and last military use of an atomic weapon against the Japanese city of Nagasaki in order to try to secure a swift Japanese unconditional surrender in the end of the Second World War -
Nikolai Vasilevich Novikov
writes a response to Kennan's Long Telegram, known as the 'Novikov Telegram', in which he states that the United States are "striving for world supremacy" -
US extends $400 million of military aid
Greece and Turkey, signalling its intent to contain communism in the Mediterranean. -
Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin orders the blockade of all land routes from West Germany to Berlin,
in an attempt to starve out the French, British, and American forces from the city. In response, the three Western powers launch the Berlin Airlift to supply the citizens of Berlin by air. -
Sovereignty is handed over to United States
Indonesia from the Netherlands through the Dutch-Indonesian Round Table Conference with Sukarno as the first president of the newly formed federation. -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is founded
it is founded by Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States, in order to resist Communist expansion. -
The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb
The test, known to Americans as Joe 1, succeeds, as the Soviet Union becomes the world's second nuclear power. -
: Robert Schuman describes his ambition of a united Europe.
Known as the Schuman Declaration, it marks the beginning of the creation of the European Community. -
The Paris Peace Accords
end American involvement in the Vietnam War. Congress cuts off funds for the continued bombing of Indochina. -
The communist Khmer Rouge take power in Cambodia
genocide ensues, later referred to as "The Killing Fields". -
Marxist-led Sandinista revolutionaries overthrow
U.S.-backed Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua. The Contra insurgency begins shortly thereafter. -
Ronald Reagan inaugurated 40th President of the United States.
Reagan is elected on a platform opposed to the concessions of détente. -
Yuri Andropov
becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Union -
: Iraq invades Kuwait
beginning Gulf War.
