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US USES ATOMIC BOMBS ON JAPAN TO END WWII
The US drops a bomb on Japan to put a quick end to World War 2 but results in the beginning of a cold war. -
Truman Doctrine
An American foreign policy that originated with the primary goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
BERLIN BLOCKADE AND AIRLIFT
To force the Western Allied powers to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin. -
USSR TESTS FIRST NUCLEAR WEAPON
USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, its purpose to measure the effects of the blast, tested on buildings, bridges, and other civilian structures in the vicinity of the bomb. -
KOREAN WAR
The outcome of the Korean war was the Soviet Union and China succeeding in making North Korea a communist state, which is still apparent today. -
VIETNAM WAR
Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam, the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the next year. -
BERLIN WALL DIVIDES GERMANY
Purpose was to prevent population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin, which was controlled by the major Western Allies. Divided the city of Berlin into two physically and ideologically contrasting zones. -
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
Closest we ever came to a nuclear war -
BERLIN WALL COMES DOWN
A moment that shocked the world and marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War, the reunification of Germany in 1990, and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 -
SOVIET UNION COLLAPSES - COLD WAR ENDS
Start to world peace and no more fighting between the US and USSR.