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The Cold War
A war of high tensions, mainly between Russia and the United States. -
U.S. Drops Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima
The first of two atomic bombs ever dropped in the history of war. It is asumed to have killed 90,000 to 166,000 within the first day. -
Japan Surrenders, End of WW2
After the U.S dropped two atomic bombs on japan in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the emporer of Japan surrendered, ending WW2. -
Marshall Plan is announced
The Marshall Plan is a help system designed by the United States to help Europian countries after the events of WW2. -
Berlin Blcokade by USSR begins
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt by the Soviet Union to block out any Allies from getting to Berlin and supply food for their controlled parts of the city. This would mean that the Soviets have to supply resources for the entire city, giving them full control over Berlin. -
NATO ratiafied as a military organization
NATO was created as a Political organization, but as the cold war progressed they became a force to "keep Americans in, Russians out, and Germans down." -
Korean War Begins
This was a war between the Republic of Korea( which was supported by the U.S) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (supported by the People's Republic of China, with military and material aid from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) -
Warsaw Pact formed
The Warsaw Pact was deigned as a mutual defence treaty between the eight Communist states of eastern Europe -
USSR luanchs Sputnik into earth orbit
The Sputnik 1 was the first artificial satalite launched into orbit around the earth. This event started the Space race and the Space age. -
John F Kennedy Elected President
often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. -
USSR Astronaut Gagarin First to Orbit Earth
Yuri Gagarin was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth.Gagarin was awarded Hero of the Soviet Union, the nation's highest honour. -
Construction of Berlin Wall begins
The berlin Wall is a wall built by the German Democratic Republic to completly cut off west Berlin from east Berlin -
Cuban Missle Crisis
The Cuban Missle Crisis was an operation by the Soviet Union and cuba that put missles in cuba that could attack the United states very easily. -
China Detonates its First Atomic Bomb
This bomb, codenamed 569, was the People's Republic of China's first nuclear weapons test. it was located at the Lop Nur test site -
U.S lands first man on the moon
The First manned moon landing served as a way to capture public imagination. also, there were originally plans to try and build a military base on the moon. -
SALT I nuclear treaty signed
The SALT treaty (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) were signed saying that both US and USSR are to freeze the number of nuclear missles at the existing numbers. -
Reagan reveals Strategic Defense Initiative, "Star Wars"
Star Wars is a space based defensive system to defend the US from any ballistic missles. -
Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove all medium and short-range nuclear missles from europe by signing treaty.
The treaty eliminated nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with intermediate ranges -
Berlin Wall Falls
Due to radical changes in politics and an increase in Soviet support by Poland and Hungary, the East-German government decided to allow people to cross the wall. -
Warsaw Pact Ends
After 36 years in existence, the Warsaw Pact, the military alliance between the Soviet Union and its eastern European satellites, comes to an end. The action was yet another sign that the Soviet Union was losing control over its former allies and that the Cold War was falling apart. -
USSR Dissolved, Cold War Ends
After the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics.
