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US USES ATOMIC BOMBS ON JAPAN TO END WWII
An American bomber dropped the first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city which then killed about 80,000 people. Thousands more died due to exposure to radiation. -
BERLIN BLOCKADE AND AIRLIFT
This event was one of the first international crises of the Cold War. -
USSR tets first nuclear weapon
The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb. -
US tests first hydrogen bomb
The United States detonates the first hydrogen bomb. -
Korean war
The War begin when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and rebellions in South Korea. -
Berlin wall divides Germany
The concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. -
Cuban missile crisis
It was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the time of the Cold War. -
Ping Pong Diplomacy
The exchange of table tennis. -
Vietnam war
It was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The second Indochina war officially fought with South and North Vietnam. -
SOVIET UNION COLLAPSES - COLD WAR ENDS
Both the Revolutions of 1989 in the Eastern Bloc and the dissolution of the Soviet Union marked the end of the Cold War.