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The Americans drop the first atomic bomb from a B29 superfortress named Enola Gay later that day a second bomb was dropped on Japan ending WW2.

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The Russians test their atomic bomb. This is the thing that really starts the cold war.

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The Korean war began when the US took the side of the South Koreans when USSR backed North Koreans invaded the war ended with a tie.

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The Vietnam War starts, many new weapons such as attack helicopters and missiles are used.

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The USSR launches Sputnik 1 starting the space race.

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Operation Chrome Dome took place at the very height of the Cold War where B52 Stratofortress bombers circled the USSR. But after 2 close calls where the bombers crashed with live nuclear weapons, the project was cancelled.

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Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to orbit the earth. This escalates the space race, Then months later US astronaut John Glenn goes to orbit the earth.

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Yuri Gagarin Launches As First Human In Space On Vostok-1 R7 1961 - Footage And Radio

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The Cuban missile crisis begins when the USSR installs nuclear missiles on Cuba that could hit U.S. shores in minutes. the U.S. blockades Cuba the and the Russians surrender in this time humans were closest to global annihilation.

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The history of the Cuban Missile Crisis - Matthew A. Jordan

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The Tet Offensive begins and marks the height of the Vietnam war. This was also a bad defeat to the communists 50,000 North Vietnamese and Soviet troops were lost vs. 1580 U.S. troops making it an absolute disaster for the soviets.

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U.S. astronauts  Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Micheal Collins took off to the moon where the famous words “One small step for man… one giant leap for mankind".

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Apollo 11: One Small Step on the Moon for All Mankind

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The Vietnam war ends thousands of U.S. P.O.W.s, pilots, soldiers and sailors all come home after countless years of fighting. the USSR and U.S. become frenemies usually always keeping an eye on one another. On December 25th 1991 the Soviet Union fell.