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It is historically significant as the bill provided war veterans the chance to attend college and pursue higher degrees of education, and provided jobs and low mortgages, which boosted the American economy as more people earned higher wages.

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The Yalta Conference was a meeting with the three Allied leaders, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin and is historically important as they discussed about reorganizing Europe after the war, the division of Germany into four zones, and the formation of the United Nations.

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The Marshall Plan was an initiative by the United States to help Europe recover from the Second World War by giving them support with $17 billion in funding. This is historically significant as it helped Europe grow from the effects of the war and stopped it from becoming a communist country as the Soviet Union was trying to expand control at that time. Europe’s economy drastically increased with a rise in the country’s GNP.

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The Berlin Airlift was an operation by the United States and Great Britain wherein they supplied food and fuel to their sectors in Berlin during the blockade by the Soviet Union. This is historically significant because this operation led to the Soviet Union lifting the blockade and it also led to the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an alliance with 31 countries to protect the Allied countries against terrorism, climate change, and threats. It was formed before the end of the Berlin blockade. This is historically significant as it secures peace and promotes democracy. One event where NATO was involved were the 9/11 attacks in 2001 where members of the organization stood with the United States.

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The Soviet Union develops its first atomic bomb following the United States' bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. It was a program that was permitted by Joseph Stalin. It is historically significant as this event eventually led to the Cold War as both countries, the USSR and US were competing to develop more nuclear weapons.

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In the year 1949, China turned into a communist state. This is historically significant as this event led to the development of social and political reforms, which made China a threat to both the US and the Soviet Union as the country became more powerful.

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The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea after the north invaded South Korea. This is historically significant because of the United States' help in preventing communism from spreading as it was a war between communist and capitalist states.

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The Warsaw Pact was an alliance formed by the USSR with other states under communism and was a response to the allied countries establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). It is historically significant as it was one of the things that divided Europe into East and West and also contributed to new military technologies and strategies.

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It is also known as the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, was a law wherein the construction of a 65,000-km system of highways would be built. This is historically significant as it is being used widely today to get into different cities faster and is a big change in infrastructure.

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Sputnik I was the first artificial satellite that orbited Earth and was burned in January 1, 1958 while trying to return back to Earth's atmosphere. This is historically significant because the Soviet Union and the US were competing on developing new technologies and no one expected the Soviets to invent the space technology first.

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The Bay of Pigs invasion was planned by the United States and involved trained Cuban exiles to invade Cuba to overthrow their communist leader. The plan failed completely because of poor planning and strategies. This is historically significant because it affected the relations between the US and Cuba.

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The Berlin Wall was built in the city of Berlin by a Soviet-controlled German government that divided the country from east and west to prevent people from the east escaping into the west of Germany. This is historically important because it symbolized the division of the country and its fall in 1989 marked the end of the Cold War.

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In the year 1962, a spy plane from the United States took a photograph above Cuba where nuclear missiles were being built by the USSR. This was alerted to the president right away but did not want the USSR to know. Then, President Kennedy implemented a blockade in Cuba, and a confrontation between the US and the USSR started. This is historically significant as it marked a near interaction of a nuclear war between the two countries.

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The Moon Landing was an important event that happened during the Cold War when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin walked on the moon for the first time. This was historically significant as not only were they the first people to step on the moon but it was a rivalry with the United States against the Soviet Union on who developed new technologies in the Cold War.

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The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks or SALT were conferences and treaties that were signed by the US and the USSR. It’s aim was to reduce the creation of nuclear weapons. This is historically significant because it limited the use of nuclear weapons and lessened strategic missiles.

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The US and China had years of complications and rivalries. In the 1970s, these two countries started engaging with each other with the visits of Henry Kissinger and President Nixon in China. The two countries finally established diplomatic relations in 1979. This is historically significant as the United States were able to develop economically because of the economic power China has.

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The USSR dissolving marked the end of the Cold War and the end of the country's communist government. This is historically significant as it stopped the ideology of communism, resulted in the removal of nuclear weapons, increased the United States' global power, and marked the beginning of freedom in the Soviet Union.