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The Cold War begins
Signing of a peace treaty at Yalta between FDR, Stalin, and Churchill. -
U.S. drops atomic bomb on Japan
Atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. -
WWII comes to an end
Emperial Japan surrenders to end WWII. -
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The Cold War
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The Korean War begins
War between North and South Korea lures in the U.S. in an effort to protect the U.S. allies in the South. -
KGB is established in the U.S.S.R.
The KGB is established in the U.S.S.R. The acronym is commonly known as the "commitee for state security". -
Sputnik launched into orbit
Sputnick lauched by the U.S.S.R. beating the U.S. into space. -
Fidel Castto take over Cuba
Cuba is taken over by Fidel Castro with the backing of the Soviet Union. -
Bay of pigs invation
The U.S. invades Cuba known as the "Bay of Pigs" invation. It was an unsuccessful mission. -
America sends 150,000 troops to Vietnam
The Vietnam war raged on for two decades, finally coming to an end in April of 1975. -
President Nixon resigns
President Nixon resigns before Congress can impeach him over the "Watergate scandle". -
President Reagan proposes Strategic Defense Initiative
This initiative was used for ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. -
Mikhail Gorbachev ascends to power in Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev became a friend of President Ronald Reagan and was the President of the Soviet Union when that country finally desolved and broke into several states. -
"Tear down this wall"
"Tear down this wall!" was the challenge issued by United States President Ronald Reagan to Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall, in a speech at the Brandenburg Gate near the Berlin Wall on June 12, 1987, commemorating the 750th anniversary of Berlin. -
Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe
After much debate and sole searching the two leaders of American and the Soviet Union came to an agreement to distroy all intermediate nuclear missles in Europe. It was called "The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty". -
Cold War ends
The Cold War ends when pressures escalated inside the Soviet Union, where Communism fell and the U.S.S.R. was formally dissolved in late 1991. The United States remained as the world's only superpower.
