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D-Day-Invasion of Normandy
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End of WWII and the Cold War
The Cold War didn't officially end until 1991 after the Berlin Wall was torn down and the collapse of the USSR. -
Germany Surrenders-End of the war in Europe!
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Potsdam Conference
Leaders of the "Big Three" attended the Potsdam Conference. The so-called Potsdam Agreement transferred the chief authority in Germany to the American, Russian, British, and French military commanders in their respective zones of occupation and to a four-power Allied Control Council for matters regarding the whole of Germany. Read more: Potsdam Conference — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0839912.html#ixzz1kVtavoi1 -
Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
The plane was named after the pilot's mother. "big Boy" was the name of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It killed 70,000 people instantly and an estimated 70,000 in the next five years from radiation poisoning. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
The bomb that dropped on Nagasaki was named "Fat Man." Approximately 40% of Nagasaki was destroyed and an estimated 70,000 people died by the end of the year. -
Japan Surrenders-End of war in the Pacific!
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"Iron Curtain" Speech
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who in his speech at Westminster College, Fulton, USA, used the term for the first time, in 1946, in order to describe the division of Eastern from Western Europe. The Iron curtain was created by the Soviet Union after the World War II. It was an ideological and military barrier between the Western countries and those which were under the dependence of the Communist Soviet Union. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade begins as Soviet forces close off Berlin to the West. The Soviet Union tried to take over the western part of Berlin by being the only capable country of supplying goods. The Western Nations created the Berlin Airlift to fly in supplies to West Berliners and get around the blockade. This was one of the first tense moments in the Cold War. -
NATO established
An organization of 12 nations including the United States and United Kingdom. This organization was created to defend Western countries from the communist "iron curtain." -
Warsaw Pact
A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact included Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_the_Warsaw_Pact#ixzz1kVwevO7l -
The Berlin Wall(1961-1989)
On 13 August 1961 the East German government started building The Berlin Wall, which separated West from East Berlin. It was made up of large concrete walls, barbed wire and guard towers. The Berlin Wall became part of the Iron Curtain which separated the Communist eastern bloc of Europe from the west during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was built to stop thousands of East Berliners from emigrating to the free western part of the city in search of a new and better life.
