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The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bomb_on_Japan The bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima killed more than 100,000 people just on the first day. Others suffered from burns and radiation. -
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The Truman Doctrine was established to offer assistance to countries.
http://csrmedia.education.asu.edu/Lectures/SS3/HistoryCore/Basic9/index.htm This Doctrine helped countries that were threatened by communism especially Greece and Turkey. -
The first major Berlin crisis during the Cold War from the Soviet blockade of West Berlin.
http://csrmedia.education.asu.edu/Lectures/SS3/HistoryCore/Basic9/index.htm Cut off from the outside world, provisions are delivered to the isolated city by the Americans in the Berlin Air Bridge action. -
The NATO Treaty is signed in Washington.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO The NATO Treaty is basically for all parties invloved to protect each other from external parties. -
The Federal Republic of Germany is established.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germany Right after this event, on October 7th, the communist German Democratic Republican (GDR) is founded. -
The Soviets detonate their first atomic bomb.
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/Sovwpnprog.html According to legend, the Soviet physicists who worked on the bomb were honored for the achievement based on the penalties they would have suffered had the test failed. -
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin offers to hold negotiations on reunification of Germany on the condition that a united Germany remain neutral.
http://csrmedia.education.asu.edu/Lectures/SS3/HistoryCore/Basic9/index.htm The Western allied powers reject the offer because of the support of the WEst German parliament. -
The Berlin Wall begins construction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Berlinermauer.jpg Completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin -
After the Soviets position nuclear was heads in Cuba, the US threatens war.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/timeline-a-brief-history-of-the-cold-war-a-562290.html This became known as the Cuba Crisis. The world was on the verge of nuclear war for days. -
The US, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union agree to suspend surface and underwater tests of nuclear weapons.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/timeline-a-brief-history-of-the-cold-war-a-562290.html The Treaty was signed and ratified by the governments of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States during the fall of 1963. -
Ronald Reagan announces the development of a world-wide "Star Wars" missile defense system with his Strategic Defense Initiative.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/timeline-a-brief-history-of-the-cold-war-a-562290.html The initiative focused on strategic defense rather than the prior strategic offense doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) -
The Berlin Wall falls.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/timeline-a-brief-history-of-the-cold-war-a-562290.html After the Berlin Wall came down, East and West Germany reunified into a single German state on October 3, 1990. -
The Warsaw Pact is dissolved and Gorbachev resigns and the Soviet Union disappears.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/timeline-a-brief-history-of-the-cold-war-a-562290.html Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned, declaring his office extinct, and handed over the Soviet nuclear missile launching codes to Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
