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Yalta Conference foreshadows the Cold War
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet to discuss the Allied war effort against Germany and Japan and to try and settle some nagging diplomatic issues. -
United States first used atomic bomb in war
The United States conducts the first test of the atomic bomb at at the Trinity bomb site in central New Mexico. The terrifying new weapon would quickly become a focal point in the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union -
Russia enters war against Japan
The Soviet-Japanese War of 1945 (Russian: Советско-японская война, lit. Soviet-Japanese War), began on August 9, 1945, with the Soviet invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. The Soviets terminated Japanese control of Manchukuo, Mengjiang , northern Korea, southern Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands. The rapid defeat of Japan's Kwantung Army was a significant factor in the Japanese surrender and the termination of World War II -
Japanese surrender End of World War II
it went against the wishes of many people who belived in honor, they officialy surrendered on September 2, 1945. Some Japanese soldiers then commited suicde or "seppuku" to release themselves of the pain of defeat -
Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" Speech
i dont know the date 1 is not correct In one of the most famous orations of the Cold War period, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union's policies in Europe and declares, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent." Churchill's speech is considered one of the opening volleys announcing the beginning of the Cold War. -
Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War
no date- Because Greek rebels believed that the government should be run in a Communist-like style, which the USA and NATO were totally against. The USA and NATO believed that democracy was the best type of government system.
- The Greek rebels were being aided by the Russians, the Americans arch rival at the time
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Marshall Plan is announced
no date Marshall announced his Plan to students at Harvard University on 5th June 1947. He promised that America would do ‘whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world.’ -
Berlin Blockade begins
The Berlin blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Allied control. Their aim was to force the western powers to allow the Soviet zone to start supplying Berlin with food and fuel, thereby giving the Soviets practical control over the entire city -
Soviets explode first atomic bomb
The Soviet project to develop an atomic bomb (Russian: Создание советской атомной бомбы) was a clandestine research and development program begun during and post-World War II, in the wake of the Soviet Union's discovery of the American, British, and Canadian nuclear project -
Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt
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The first event of Communist interrogation happened in March 1951. Film star Larry parks was questioned by a congregational committee investigating Communist activity in America. Parks admitted that he joined in 1941 because it was the most Liberal party he could find. The committee the asked parks to name people who attended party meetings, Parks refused and the committee then threatened to hold him in contempt. -
Korean War begins
the numbers 1 is no date.. Armed forces from communist North Korea smash into South Korea, setting off the Korean War. The United States, acting under the auspices of the United Nations, quickly sprang to the defense of South Korea and fought a bloody and frustrating war for the next three years. -
Federal Civil Defense Administration established
The Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA) was organized by Democratic president Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) on December 1, 1950, and became an official government agency on January 12, 1951. The agency distributed posters, programs, and information about communism and the threat of communist attacks. -
Khrushchev visits United States; denied access to Disneyland
During his visit to the United States, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev requests to visit Disneyland.However, his travel guide, US ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, denies the request after the police express safety concerns.Khrushchev is quite upset, and complains about it in his speech regarding the trip -
Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory
On May 1, 1960, thirteen days before the scheduled opening of an East–West summit conference in Paris, a U.S. Lockheed U-2A spy plane, 56-6693, Item 360, left the US base in Badaber on a mission to overfly the Soviet Union, photographing ICBM sites in and around Sverdlovsk and Plesetsk, then land at Bodø in Norway. All units of the Soviet Air Defence Forces in the Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Siberia, Ural and later in the U.S.S.R. European Region and Extreme North were on red alert, and the U-2 fl -
John F. Kennedy elected President
John F. Kennedy becomes the youngest man ever to be elected president of the United States, narrowly beating Republican Vice President Richard Nixon. He was also the first Catholic to become president. -
- Bay of Pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful attempt by United States-backed Cuban exiles to overthrow the government of the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Increasing friction between the U.S. government and Castro's leftist regime led President Dwight D. Eisenhower to break off diplomatic relations with Cuba in January 1961. Even before that, however, the Central Intelligence Agency had been training anti-revolutionary Cuban exiles for a possible invasion of the island. The invasion plan was appr -
Apollo 11 lands on the moo
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on the Moon on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC. Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface 6 hours later on July 21 at 02:56 UTC. Armstrong spent about two and a half hours outside the spacecraft, Aldrin slightly less; and together they collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar material for return to Earth. A third member of the mission, Michael Collins, piloted the command spacecraft -
President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia
April 30, 1970 marks the date of President Richard Nixon’s address to the United States stating that the Vietnam war would be mobilized to Cambodia, the neighboring country to the west. The invasion of Cambodia was not acted on a whim, but in fact, the United States had been bombing Cambodia for over a year. President Nixon advocated the invasion of Cambodia with Vietnam troops, while the citizens of the country were apprehensive. -
SALT I signed
Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and U.S. President Richard Nixon, meeting in Moscow, sign the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) agreements. At the time, these agreements were the most far-reaching attempts to control nuclear weapons ever. -
Shah of Iran overthrown; Iranian Hostage Crisis
The crisis has been described as an entanglement of "vengeance and mutual incomprehension."[3] In Iran, the hostage taking was widely seen as a blow against the United States and its influence in Iran, its perceived attempts to undermine the Iranian Revolution, and its longstanding support of the recently overthrown Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran. Following his overthrow, the Shah was allowed into the US for medical treatment. In the United States, the hostage-taking was seen as an outrage v -
President Reagan proposes Strategic Defense Initiative
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The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983,[1] to use ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. The initiative focused on strategic defense rather than the prior strategic offense doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD). The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) was set up in 1984 within the United States Department of Defense to overs -
U.S. troops overthrow regime in Grenada
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The Soviet Union and it’s communist ally Cuba, attempted to take over Grenada and change their government to a communist government. They sent representatives over to attempt to reform the government and sendanti-American propaganda throughout the Caribbean -
Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania; Soviet empire ends
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On the night of November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall--the most potent symbol of the Cold War division of Europe--came down. Earlier that day, the communist authorities of the German Democratic Republic had announced the removal of travel restrictions to democratic West Berlin. Thousands of East Germans streamed into the West, and in the course of the night, celebrants on both sides of the wall began to tear it down. -
Lithuania becomes independent
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Lithuania became an independent country in 1918 and remained independent until 1940 when Soviet troops occupied it. From 1940 to 1990 Lithuania was known as the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. On March 11, 1990, the Lithuanian Parliament issued a Declaration of Independence, and voted to have Lithuania emancipated from the Soviet Union. Independence was deemed officially independent on September 6, 1991. -
Boris Yeltsin elected to presidency of Russia
Citizens of the vast Russian republic, breaking with 70 years of Communist Party rule, elected radical reformist Boris Yeltsin as their first president today, while the people of Leningrad voted to change the name of their city back to its czarist original, St. Petersburg. -
Warsaw Pact ends
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After 36 years in existence, the Warsaw Pact—the military alliance between the Soviet Union and its eastern European satellites—comes to an end. The action was yet another sign that the Soviet Union was losing control over its former allies and that the Cold War was falling apart.
