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Atomic Bomb
During World War 2 America dropped the atomic bomb, called little boy on Hiroshima. -
2nd Atomic Bomb
Three days later they dropped Fat Man on Nagasaki. It was the final large-scale wartime act of World War 2. -
US aid to Greece
Greece Defense Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos stoke a deal with his American counterpart, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta: USA will grant to Greece 400 used Abrams M1A1 tanks and tracked vehicles including 700 personnel carrier type M113. The army material will come from the stocks of the U.S. Army and it will be donated to Greece in the context of US Army reorganization. -
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Berlin Airlift
In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city. For nearly a year, supplies from American planes sustained the over 2 million people in West Berlin. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economics after the end of World War 2. -
Nato Established
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was established by 12 Western nations. The military alliance, which provided for a collective self-defense against Soviet aggression, greatly increased American influence in Europe. -
USSR gets atomic bomb
The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. -
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Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. As a product of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, Korea had been split into two sovereign states. -
Coup in Iran
The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état, was the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favour of strengthening the monarchical rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on 19 August 1953 -
Coup in Guatemala
The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état was a covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944–1954. -
Cuba Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. -
China Expodes Atomic Bomb
In a thirty two-month period, China successfully exploded its first atomic bomb (October 16, 1964), launched its first nuclear missile October 25, 1966, and detonated its first hydrogen bomb June 14, 1967. -
Beginning of Troops in Vietnam
The first U.S. combat troops arrived in Vietnam as 3500 Marines land at China Beach to defend the American air base at Da Nang. They join 23,000 American military advisors already in Vietnam. -
End of Troops in Vietnam
Direct U.S. military involvement ended on August 15, 1973. The capture of Saigon by the North Vietnamese Army in April 1975 marked the end of the war, and North and South Vietnam were reunified the following year. -
Coup in Chile
The 1973 Chilean coup was a watershed moment in both the history of Chile and the Cold War. Following an extended period of social unrest and political tension between the opposition controlled Congress of Chile and the socialist President Salvador Allende, as well as economic warfare ordered by US President Richard Nixon, Allende was overthrown by the armed forces and national police. -
Communist Angola
The Republic of Angola was the self-declared socialist state which governed Angola from its independence in 1975 until 1992, during the Angolan Civil War. -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
The Soviets invaded Afghanistan to ensure that a pro-Soviet regime would be in power in the country. The Soviet invasion shocked the West, as it was the first direct use of Soviet combat troops outside the region of the Warsaw Pact, -
War in El Salvador
The Salvadoran Civil War was a conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, a coalition of several left-wing groups. -
Evil Empire Speech
The phrase "evil empire" was first applied to the Soviet Union in 1983 by US President Ronald Reagan, who took an aggressive, hard line stance that favored matching and exceeding the Soviet Union's strategic and global military capabilities, in calling for a rollback strategy that would, "write the final pages of the history of the Soviet Union". The characterization demeaned the Soviet Union and angered Soviet leaders and energized conservatives in the United States and Europe. -
Fall of The Berlin Wall
as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. -
Fall of The USSR
The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred on 26 December 1991, officially granting self-governing independence to the Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It was a result of the declaration number 142-Н of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
