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Cold War Begins
The United States and the Soviet Union were uneasy allies; their collaboration was the result of a mutual fear that the Nazis would gain control over Europe. Tension was built but no one wanted to go to actual war again after the colossal massacre of WWII -
US Drops Bomb on Hiroshima
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. "LIttle Boy" killed around 80,000 people, marking the end of WWII and the beggining of the Cold War -
Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan is announced intended for helping countries combat poverty, disease and malnutrition. This aid provided much needed capital and materials that enabled Europeans to rebuild the continent’s economy. -
Berlin Blackade Begins
Ita the first major international crises of the Cold War, it limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin. This lasted 11 months. -
NATO
NATO was created as military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty, Its purpose was to unify and strengthen the Western Allies against the invasion of the Soviet Union -
Berlin Blockade Ends
The blockade was broken by a massive U.S.-British airlift of vital supplies to West Berlin's two million citizens. The Berlin airlift continued until September 30, in an effort to build up a year's supply of essential goods for West Berlin. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact is collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, against NATO. It formalized the political division of the European continent that had taken place since World War II -
Berlin Wall Goes Up
Two days after sealing off free passage between East and West Berlin with barbed wire, East German authorities begin building a wall to permanently close off access to the West, the wall became known as the Iron Curtain. It stood as a great symbol of the Cold War that lasted for 28 years. -
Demolishing of the Berlin Wall
The end of the communist system had begun. At Bornholmer Strasse the people demanded to open the border and at 10.30 pm the border was opened there. That night the deadly border was opened by East Germans peacefully. -
End of the Cold War
Eastern European communist dictatorships fell one by one. By the fall of 1989, East and West Germans were tearing down the BERLIN WALL with pickaxes. Ukraine, BYELORUSSIA, and RUSSIA itself declared independence and the Soviet Union was dissolved.
