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Cold War
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Hiroshima
On august 6th of 1945 the united states began to start dropping nuclear bombs. They declared that japan will be their first victim. Doing so they dropped their first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. -
Nagasaki
As the United states starts to become more comfortable with nuclear bombs they set out to do more damage. They still keep their eyes on japan. Now bombing Nagasaki -
Churchill's iron curtain speech
To make the world really see what was going on with europe and the soviet union a famous speaker, Winston Churchill gave his famous iron curtain speech. Stating how Europe has fallen under a iron curtain. He opened the eyes of many making the united states get involved -
Marshall plan
Seeing that Europe was struggling deeply and the Soviet union was trying to spread communism they decided to step in. They helped as much as possible and gave them billions of dollars. Although they were only really to help the western European countries -
Berlins blockade
Since berlin was getting very defensive over the merger of the U.S and U.K Partions berlin began to cut off rail supplies to that sector. Meaning that people in the western part of berlin struggled extremely. They were cut off from food and needed supplies -
NATO25
NATO~ The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation formed from countries including, Belgium, Canada, Denmark,France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugual, United Kingdom, and United states. It was created so they can better each others military and become better countries. -
The Korean war
The Korean War began on June 25 1950. This started when north Korea invaded South Korea. The korean war continued for a very long time -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian revolution began on October 23rd 1956. It began when Hungarians protested again communism in Belgium. It grew greatly causing the soviet union to bring tanks in Budapest. Hungary won for awhile but then the soviet union came back and defeated them and Hungary asked for aid. -
Space Race
the space race began On November 1st 1957. It was against two Cold war rivals, The soviet Union and The United States. -
Sputnik
Sputnik was the first artifical earth satelite that went into outer space. This major leap was caused by the soviet union. Later sputnik II put the first dog into outter space. -
U-2 Incident
The U-2 incident occured while eisenhower was president of the united states. At this time the United states would send spies to spy on enemys on may first an american spy place was shot down by the soviet union. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was created on August 13th 1961. It sperated west and East Germany. The East did this to make sure no western "fascists" from entering -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The United States had a Spy that saw that the Soviet Union had a missile base in Cuba. This scared the United states and they made a blockade and demanded if they don't remove the missiles that they would have some problems -
Olympic boycott
Numerous Countries boycotted the Olympics due to the fact the soviet union invaded Afghanistan.Some Countries like Great Britain participated under the Olympic flag and not their own. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
On November 9th 1989 the Berlin wall was torn down.They tore it down when the cold war began to slow across the eastern side of Germany. they declared at midnight that night that citizens were able to cross boarders -
End of the cold war
On December 26th 1991 the cold war ended. the soviet union recongised the war needed to end and it did.
