Cold war by SANTIAGO REGALADO QUIRARTE

The 1945s

santiagoreq19 — 2024-06-04 17:11:07 UTC

The usa droped two attomic bombs to japan in order to end the war on the pacific and japan finally durrended putting and end to the ww

1949s

santiagoreq19 — 2024-06-04 17:19:31 UTC

The Soviet Union begun research on its own atomic bomb program in 1943. by information and plans stolen from the Manhattan Project by Soviet spies, the USSR was able to develop its own nuclear bomb.

In August of 1949, it conducted a successful test of a 20-kiloton bomb years the ussr created a nuclear bomb.

1950s

santiagoreq19 — 2024-06-04 17:22:59 UTC

On November 1, 1952 at 7:15am local time, the United States tested its first thermonuclear device on the island of Elugelab in the Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands about 3,000 miles west of Hawaii.the device was detonated remotely from a distance of about 30 miles.

1957s

santiagoreq19 — 2024-06-04 17:28:35 UTC

The US and the USSR each wanted to achieve technological superiority over the other. Included in that struggle was the race to become the first country to build a rocket capable of launching an object into space.

1963s

santiagoreq19 — 2024-06-04 17:32:18 UTC

The largest land-based missile ever deployed by the US, the Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile was 103 feet tall and 10 feet in diameter. The Titan II could launch from its underground silo in just 58 seconds and it carried the W-53 warhead with a yield of 9 megatons (9,000,000 tons of TNT).

1983s

santiagoreq19 — 2024-06-04 17:34:20 UTC

In early November of 1983 the world may have come closer to nuclear war than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis. NATO was conducting what it considered a routine exercise named Able Archer, a simulation designed to train and test the procedures for shifting from conventional to nuclear war.

1991

santiagoreq19 — 2024-06-04 17:36:57 UTC

Riding the wave of unrest symbolized by the opening of the Berlin Wall, leaders of every Eastern European nation were overthrown by popular uprisings by the end of 1989.

Finally, on December 8, 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. The president of the Russian Republic, Boris Yeltsin, formed the Commonwealth of Independent states. After 45 years, the Cold War, the longest war in US history, was over.