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VE Day
On Monday May 8, 1945 Great Britain and the United States celebrated victory when the German troops finally laid down their arms. The cities of both nations in addition to Western Europe cities celebrated their country with flags and banners that the Nazi war machine has ended. -
U.S. Drops Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima
B-29 bomber dropped the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945 wiping out 90 percent of the city and killed more than 80,000 people. -
U.S. Drops Atomic Bomb in Nagasaki
Three days after Hiroshima the second B-29 bomb in Nagasaki, Japan went off and killing about 40,000 people. -
Truman Doctrine
Harry S.Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War and his team believed both Britain and the United States were threatened by communism by the Soviet Union and jumped on the chance to take them out. But the United States needed military and economic support to protect themselves by the aggression. -
Truman Doctrine
Harry S. Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War and Truman and his team believed both Britain and the United States were threatened by the Soviet Union with their communism and those two countries. -
Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory
CIA employee Gary Powers was flying a reconnaissance mission over the Soviet Union when flying top secret U-2 spy plane but shot down by an SA 2 Surface to air missile. -
Apollo 11 lands on the moon
Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20. 1960 which was the spaceship that the first man landed on the moon, and the first steps by humans on another planetary body. United States made sure to accomplish this before Russia. -
Berlin Wall Toppled
On November 9, 1989 was the end of the 40 year divide between
East Germany and West Germany, also, ending the socialist system.
