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V-Day
V-Day is known as "Victory Day, but is mainly associated with World War 2. This was known as the victorious day that the Germans surrendered to the Russian army near the end of WW2. -
World's First Atomic Bomb
On the same year that World War 2 ended, the United States tested the world's first atomic bomb in New Mexico. -
The Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference concluded that Austria, Germany and Germany's capital, Berlin would be divided into four divisions. The Potsdam Conference held the US president, the British Prime Minister and the Soviet leader. They also discussed that Korea should be divided into zones between America and the Soviets. -
The Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister during the time, created what is known as the 'Sinews of Peace.' The speech and Churchill himself are famous for the phrase, "an iron curtain has descended onto Europe." Churchill overlooked another conflict that would divide Europe, hence the curtain reference. -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was created by US president Truman. This doctrine promised to support any nation facing a communism take over. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American plan made to aid western Europe, and they ended up giving over $13 billion to support other countries. This plan was made to surely maintain peace in Europe, but also was created as Marshall was worried about communism and in favor of chaos not spreading. -
The Berlin Blockade
As the first international problem of the Cold War, the Berlin Blockade was when the Soviet Union blocked all the Western Allies routes to Berlin, including the sections that were in control of the west. Then, the Soviets built a wall around Berlin. -
The Berlin Airlift
Two days later, the Western Allies decided to carry supplies via aircraft to west Berlin, the sectors they controlled, which had a large population. Six western nation's air force made around 200,000 flights for a little longer than a year, supplying the people of Berlin with necessities each day. The Soviet's didn't want any conflict, so they did not try to disrupt what was known as the Berlin Airlift. -
The Soviet's First Atomic Bomb
Four years later, earlier than most US experts predicted, the Soviet Union tested their first atomic bomb -
The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
US president Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which limited the anti-ballistic missile systems used as defense. -
The Strategic Defense Initiative
The Strategic Defense Initiative was a missile defense system in space proposed by US president Ronald Reagan and first publicly announced during the late march of 1983. -
The End of the Soviet Union
The Soviet president decided to lessen the restrictions on social society groups and assuaged the amount of censorship in the country and made more non-state ran business; ultimately making the nation more open. This new openness led to more information from west Europe and the people of the Soviet Union realized that their communist nation was much more poor than west European nations like the US, which led former communist states to suddenly collapse.
