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Hiroshima & Nagasaki Bombed by US
At the order of President Harry S. Truman during the final stage of World War II, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
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Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. The Soviets offered to drop the blockade if the Western Allies withdrew the newly introduced Deutsche mark from West Berlin. -
NATO established
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed -
Warsaw pact created
The Warsaw Pact, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defence treaty among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe -
Berlin Wall built
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin -
USA openly involved in Vietnam
An alliance was made with Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh, who assisted with safeguarding and repatriating American pilots downed over Vietnamese territory. In return, the OSS supplied Ho’s men with weapons and equipment -
USSR invaded AFghanistan
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Meeting in Iceland between Gorbachev & Reagan
Reagan and Gorbachev meet to discuss and negotiate in hopes of ending the war. -
INF treaty signed
The INF Treat is the abbreviated name of the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles -
Berlin wall torn down
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.