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Berlin Airlift
The crisis started on June 24, 1948, when soviet forces, blockaded rail, Road, and water access to Allied-controled areas of Berlins. The United States and United Kingdom airlifted food, and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany. After 15 months and more than 250,000 flights, the Berlin officially comes to an end. The airlift was one of the greatest logistical feats in modern history, and was one of the crucial events of the early Cold War. -
Soviets detonate an atomic bomb
The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on August 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets wanted to learn aboit the effects of nuclear weapons so they tested the atomic bomb. -
China falls to the communist
The ”fall” of mainland China to communism in 1949 led the United States to suspend diplomatic ties with the PRC for decades. Communism entering Beijing in 1949. The 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria began a chain of events that led to the eventual, communist overthrow of China 1949. For years, the nationalist government of Shanghai shek had worked to suppress rebellions by the Chinese communist party (CCP). -
Korean War
The war began on 25 June, 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea, following clashes along the border in rebellions in South Korea. North Korea was supported by China and the USSR and South Korea was supported by the US and allied countries. There was a conflict between the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea, and the Republic of South Korea in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives. The super powers, chasing over communism and democracy. -
Rosenbergs Executed
On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, are executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. -
McCarthy Hearings
In 1953, McCarthy’s committee began inquiries into the United States Army, starting by investigating supposed communist infiltration of the army signal corpse laboratory at fort mammoth. The two sides of the hearing were the US Army, accusing their opponents of blackmail and Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn and G. David Schine, accusing the army of communism. The first consisted of a series of hearings, conducted by McCarthy, as the subcommittees chairman. -
Geneva Accords signed
The Geneva, accords, known formally as agreement on the settlement of the situation related to Afghanistan, or sign on 14 April 1988 at the Geneva, headquarters of the United Nations, between Afghanistan and Pakistan, with the United States, or the Soviet union serving as guarantors. The Geneva agreements were signed in July 201954, as part of the agreement, the French agreed to withdraw their troops from northern Vietnam. Vietnam would temporary be divided at the17th parallel. -
Sputnik Orbit
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957 as part of the Soviet space program -
NASA Created
The U.S. Congress passes legislation establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a civilian agency responsible for coordinating America’s activities in space, on July 29, 1958. -
Fidel Castro seizes power
After Batista’s overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cubas prime minister. The United States came to oppose Castro’s government and unsuccessfully attempted to remove him by assassination, economic embargo, and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961.