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Hitler is killed
Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. -
Partioning of Germany
Germany was split at the end of World War II going into the Cold War. Germany eventually evolved into two seperate nations East Germany. -
Civil War in Greece
was fought from 1946 to 1949 between the Greek government army, backed by the United Kingdom and the United States -
Truman Doctrine Speech
. The Truman Doctrine effectively reoriented U.S. foreign policy, away from its usual stance of withdrawal from regional conflicts not directly involving the United States, to one of possible intervention in far away conflicts. -
Marshall Plan is announced
The Marshall Plan successfully sparked economic recovery, meeting its objective of ‘restoring the confidence of the European people in the economic future of their own countries and of Europe as a whole -
Berlin Airlift
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. -
Creation of NATO
In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization -
Soviets test an atomic bomb
it came as a great shock to the United States because they were not expecting the Soviet Union to possess nuclear weapon knowledge so soon -
Korean War begins
was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. -
KGB Established
an initialism for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its break-up in 1991 -
Creation of Warsaw Pact
was a political and military alliance established on May 14, 1955 between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries. -
Sputnik
was the first artificial Earth satellite
