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The Cold War

By yaniciasalas214

  • Beginning of Cold War/Bombing of Hiroshima

    Beginning of Cold War/Bombing of Hiroshima
    This was significant in the start of the Cold War because it showed the Soviet Union and the world that the U.S has nuclear weapons.

  • USSR develops atomic bomb

    USSR develops atomic bomb
    Created an atomic bomb incase of possible war between U.S. and the USSR

  • Korean War

    Korean War
    It was the first time two big superpowers, United States and the Soviet Union had a "proxy war" in a third country

  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    Vietnam was a battleground for the U.S. and the Soviet Union as they fought for world domination

  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    Space Race. U.S. feared the Soviet Union was more advanced in technology.

  • Cuban Missle Crisis

    Cuban Missle Crisis
    Leaders of U.S and Soviet Union were in a 13-day political and military standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba,

  • Ping Pong Diplomacy

    Ping Pong Diplomacy
    A group of ping pong players became the first Americans to visit Communist China and is credited with starting the process of thawing the long-frozen relations between the two countries.

  • Soviet-Afghan War

    Soviet-Afghan War
    The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anti-communist Muslim guerrillas

  • Tianamen square massacre

    Tianamen square massacre
    Student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing during 1989

  • Collapse of the Soviet Union

    Collapse of the Soviet Union
    The Soviet Union broken into 15 separate republics making U.S. the new super power.