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United Nations Founded
An international organization founded after world war 2 by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and and security -
Cold War Starts
The Cold War was the geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle between two world superpowers, the USA and the USSR. Started at the end of world war 2 and lasted until the dissolution of the soviet union. -
Marshall Plan
Also known as the European recovery plan.The U.S helped Western Europe repair its economy,also because of the hunger and poverty they distributed food and machinery to support new production homes and businesses were rebuilt. The importance of the Marshall plan was to prevent the spread of Communism into western Europe. -
Berlin Blockade
One of the first major international crisis of the cold war. The soviet union blocked the western allies railway road and, canal access to the sectors of Berlin. For 28 years the Berlin wall was the most tangible symbol of the cold war a literal "iron curtain" dividing Europe. -
NATO
An intergovernmental military alliance. NATO's essential purpose is to safeguard the freedom and security of its members through political and military means. The alliance creation was an effort to serve 3 purposes:deterring Soviet expansionism, forbidding the revival of nationalist militarism in Europe through a strong North American presence on the continent, and encouraging European political integration -
Soviet Union test Atomic Bomb
After the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima the Soviets started working on their nuclear weapon. Semipalatinsk,Kazakstan was the test site the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb. In order to measure the effects of the blast the soviets constructed buildings,bridges,and other civilians structures. They also placed animals in cages nearby so that they could test the effects of nuclear radiation on human-like mammals. -
Rosenberg Trial
The Rosenberg's were arrested on July 1950 a few weeks after the Korean war began. It began in New York Southern District federal court. Judge Irving R. Kaufman presides over the espionage prosecution of the couple selling nuclear secrets to the Russians treason could not be charges because the U.S. was not at war with the Soviet union. -
Hydrogen bomb explodes in Pacific
The U.S. conducted the first airborne test of an improved hydrogen bomb they dropped it over the tiny island of Namu in the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific ocean. The test was successful it indicted that the hydrogen bomb was a viable airborne weapon. -
Stalin Dies
Stalin had been the leader of the Soviet Union for nearly 30 years. Though now he is now considered responsible for the death of millions of his own people through famine and purges.Many wept when they found out about his death he had led them to victory in World War 2 he had been their leader, the father of the people. Stalin's death was a mystery, When he died they released a statement saying that he died of natural causes but many speculate that he may have been killed. -
Rosenberg Executed
Julius and Ethel his wife were executed on June 19, 1953. The charge for which they were convicted for was " Conspiracy to Commit Espionage".They were held accountable for giving the so called "secret of the atomic bomb" to the USSR. -
Warsaw Pact Formed
A collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet states in Central/Eastern during the Cold war -
Rebellion in Hungary
Nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies lasting form October 23 to November 10. The death of Stalin in 1953 did not weaken the grip Mascow had on the people of Eastern Europe and Hungary. -
Sputnik Launched
The worlds first artificial satellite created by the Soviet union. Sputnik had a diameter of 22 inches and weighed 184 pounds and circled Earth once every hour and 36 minutes. Traveling at 18,000 miles an hour.Even though the sputnik launch was a one time event it marked the start of the space age and the U.S - U.S.S.R space race -
NASA created
In 1958, the U.S. passes a legislation establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a civilian agency responsible for coordinating America’s activities in space. NASA has since sponsored space expeditions, both human and mechanical, that have yielded vital information about the solar system and universe. It has also launched numerous earth-orbiting satellites that have been helpful in everything from weather forecasting to navigation to global communications -
Cuban Revolution
An armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's 26th of July movement and its allies against the authoritarian government of Cuban President Flugencio Bastista. The revolution began in July 1953 and continue until the rebels finally ousted Batista on January 1,1959 replacing his government with revolutionary socialist state. -
U-2 Incident
An international diplomatic crisis erupted when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics shot down an American U-2 spy plane n Soviet air and captured the pilot, Francis Gary Powers. When President Dwight D. Eisenhower was forced to admit to the soviets that the U.S Central Intelligence Agency. -
Bay of pigs
a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. A counter-revolutionary military, trained and funded by the United States government's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Brigade 2506 fronted the armed wing of the Democratic Revolutionary Front and intended to overthrow the increasingly communist government of Fidel Castro. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961to 1989 constructed by the German Democratic Republic. The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased. Ecstatic crowds swarmed the wall. Some crossed freely into West Berlin, while others brought hammers and picks and began to chip away at the wall itself. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. on October 22, 1962, President Kennedy notified Americans about the presence of the missiles, explained his decision to enact a naval blockade around Cuba and made it clear the U.S. was prepared to use military force if necessary. -
Kennedy assassinated
President Kennedy was assassinated at Dealey Plaza,Dallas,Texas shot by Lee Harvey Oswald. Kennedy was traveling with his wife the Texas governor John Connally and Connally's wife in the presidential motorcade
