Cold War - Kira Lowe

By jbakes
  • V E- Day

    Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945.
  • Hiroshima

    The United States, with the consent of the United Kingdom as laid down in the Quebec Agreement, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, during the final stage of World War II.
  • Nagasaki

    Nagasaki is a Japanese city on the northwest coast of the island of Kyushu. It’s set on a large natural harbor, with buildings on the terraces of surrounding hills. It is synonymous with a key moment during WWII, after suffering an Allied nuclear attack in August 1945.
  • V J-Day

    On August 15, 1945, news of the surrender was announced to the world. This sparked spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of World War II.
  • Veitnam Independent

    Veitnam Independent
    On September 2, 1945, Hồ Chí Minh read the Proclamation during a public meeting in front of thousands of people, at what is now Ba Dinh Square, Ha Noi announcing the birth of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the country's independence from France.
  • Trumen Doctrine

    The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy to stop Soviet imperialism during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey.
  • Marshall Plan

    Also known as the european recovery project as an american initiative to aid western europe.
  • Berlin Blockade

    The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
  • Warsaw Pact

    The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty among Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
  • Berlin Wall

    The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic, starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall completely cut off West Berlin
  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Cold War began to go away across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West.
  • Romanian Revolution

    The Romanian Revolution was a period of violent civil unrest in Romania in December 1989 and part of the Revolutions of 1989 that occurred in several countries.
  • End of Warsaw Pact Act

    In Prague, the Czechoslovak President Václav Havel formally ended the 1955 Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance and so disestablished the Warsaw Treaty after 36 years of military alliance with the USSR.
  • START

    Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on Strategic Offensive Reductions.
  • End of the Soviet Union

    Soviet Union was formally enacted on December 26, 1991, as a result of the declaration no. 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.