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Creation of NATO
NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization and is an alliance of 28 countries from North America and Europe committed to fulfilling the goals of the North Atlantic Treaty signed on 4 April 1949. -
Hitler's Suicide
Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. He shot himself because the cyanide capsule would kill him slowly and he didnt want to die slowly so he shot himself with a pistol -
Beginning of the Civil War in Greece
The Greek Civil War was fought from 1946 to 1949 between the Greek government army, backed by the United Kingdom and the United States, and the Democratic Army of Greece -
Truman Doctrine Speech
The Truman Doctrine was the first in a series of containment moves by the United States, followed by economic restoration of Western Europe through the Marshall Plan and military containment by the creation of NATO in 1949. -
Marshall Plan is announced
The Marshall Plan was the American initiative to aid Europe and Asia, in which the United States gave $17 billion in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Airlift
One of the first major international crises of the Cold War. -
Soviets test an atomic bomb
physicists who worked on the bomb were honored for the achievement based on the penalties they would have suffered had the test failed. -
KGB Established
an initialism for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its break-up -
Creation of Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact Organization was a political and military alliance between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries. -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on October 4, 1957. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses.
