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United States drops bomb on Hiroshima
On August 6,1945 an American B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The atomic bomb wipe out 90 percent of the city and killed 80,000 people and more would later die due to radiation exposure from the bomb. -
United States drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki
On August 9,1945 The United States dropped a second atomic bomb on the Japanese city Nagasaki. This resulted in Japan surrender to the war. The expolsion was 22,000 tons of TNT and killed between 60,000 and 80,000 people. -
Iron Curtain Speech
Winston Churchill have gave his speech at Westminster College on March 5,1946,this speech is considered to be the opening announcement for the beginning of the Cold War. -
End of Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was one of the major problems during the Cold War.The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies access to food. On May 12, 1949, an early crisis of the Cold War comes to an end when the Soviet Union lifts its 11-month blockade against West Berlin. The blockade had been broken by a massive U.S.-British airlift of vital supplies to West Berlin’s two million citizens. -
Korean War Began
This was the first military action of the Cold War. North Korea sent 75,000 soldiers to South Korea.On July 1953, the Korean War came to an end. 5 million soldiers and civilians lost their lives during the war. The Korean peninsula is still divided today. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided East and West Berlin.The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany.The Berlin Wall remains one of the powerful symbols of the Cold War. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
On November 9,1989 the Cold war began to thaw across Eastern Europe and the relations between east and west Berlin changed,announcing that the wall would be taken down.More then 2 million people visited West Berlin. When all of the wall was finally torn down it was the most united they have been since 1945. -
End of the Cold War
The fall of the Berlin Wall and Iron Curtain ended the Cold War.With the Soviet Union ending was another factor of the Cold War coming to an end when the last war of Soviet occupation ended in Afghanistan, the Berlin Wall came down in Germany, and a series of mostly peaceful revolutions swept the Soviet Bloc states of eastern Europe in 1989.
