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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. -
USA used the first Hydrogen Bomb
November 1, 1952, the United States tested its first-ever thermonuclear device at Eniwetok Atoll in the South Pacific. https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/hydrogen-bomb-1950#:~:text=Two%20and%20a%20half%20years,on%20Hiroshima%20seven%20years%20earlier. -
Warsaw Pact
collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe -
Hungry revolts against the USSR
A nationwide revolution against the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from the 23rd of October until the 10th of November 1956. -
Sputnik was Launched
Soviet Unions first launch of a satellite -
Cuba becomes communist
Cuban leader Fidel Castro established the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere after leading an overthrow of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
When American deployment of missiles was the same as the Soviet Union. -
Americans increase the support of South Vietnam
America help supply and train soldiers -
US became involved in the Vietnam War
The US wanted to make sure the South Vietnam leaders were anti-communists -
6 Day War in the Middle East
a brief but bloody conflict fought in June 1967 between Israel and the Arab states of Egypt, Syria and Jordan. -
USSR invades Czechoslovakia
The Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague -
Yom Kippur War
Was fought from October 6 to 25, 1973, by a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel -
Meeting in Iceland between the USSR and the US
The leaders explored the possibility of limiting each country’s strategic nuclear weapons to create momentum in ongoing arms-control negotiations. -
The INF treated was signed
Required the United States and the Soviet Union to eliminate and permanently forswear all of their nuclear weapons.