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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. Something significant about this event is that the world's first deployed atomic bomb was deployed over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine is an American foreign policy that originated with the primary goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. ... Direct American military force was usually not involved, but Congress appropriated financial aid to support the economies and militaries of Greece and Turkey. Something significant about this event is that the Truman Doctrine implied American support for other nations allegedly threatened by Soviet communism. -
The Berlin Airlift
A significance of this event is that the Berlin Airlift was a tremendous Cold War victory for the United States. The Berlin Airlift was a tremendous Cold War victory for the United States. Without firing a shot, the Americans foiled the Soviet plan to hold West Berlin hostage, while simultaneously demonstrating to the world the “Yankee ingenuity” for which their nation was famous. Something significant is that the Berlin Airlift was a tremendous Cold War victory for the United States. -
USSR Develops Nuclear Weapon
The Soviets started experimenting with nuclear technology in 1943, and first tested a nuclear weapon in August 1949. Many of the fission based devices left behind radioactive isotopes which have contaminated air, water and soil in the areas immediately surrounding, downwind and downstream of the blast site. Something significant about this event is that it became a successful development of nuclear weapons -
Korean War
Divided in two following World War II, Korea took centre stage of the Cold War when Soviet client state North Korea invaded South Korea in June 1950. The UN, led by the U.S., sided with South Korea; the People’s Republic of China aided North Korea. This event is significant because Korea had split into two parts. North and South Korea. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. Something significant about the war is that more than 3 million people (including over 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program. It orbited for three weeks before its batteries ran out. Something significant is that this began the space age. The successful launch shocked the world, giving the former Soviet Union the distinction of putting the first human-made object into space. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba. Something significant about the Cuban Missle Crisis is that It was the closest the world has come to war between the US and USSR, nuclear war and annihilation. -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
The Tiananmen Square protests, known as the June Fourth Incident in China, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing during 1989. troops armed with assault rifles and accompanied by tanks fired at the demonstrators and those trying to block the military's advance into Tiananmen Square. The significance was this event isnpired protestors in the USSR, which then led to the collapse of the soviet union. -
The Fall of The Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall happened nearly as suddenly as its rise. There had been signs that the Communist bloc was weakening, but the East German Communist leaders insisted that East Germany just needed a moderate change rather than a drastic revolution. East German citizens did not agree.
The significance of this event is that it was the end of communism in Eastern Europe and the Cold War.
