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THE COLD WAR
The start of the cold warThe start of the cold war began when the United States
bombed Japan
Fat ManFat Man is the bomb the United States dropped on
Nagasaki. It weighed 10,300 pounds
Little BoyLittle Boy is the atomic bomb that the United States
dropped on Hiroshima . It weighed 8,900 pounds
The first Soviet Nuclear bombThe Soviet Union created and tested there own nuclear
bomb on August of 1949.
The NATO packs
The United States and Europe issued the NATO defenses pack. It made them all allies in the Cold War
Americas allies The American allies were: Great Britain
France
Canada
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Soviet Union’s Allies
The Cubans
China
Types of nuclear weapons
Inter continental ballistic missile (ICBM) Atom bomb Cruise missile a slower missile meant to
be undetectable by radar MIRVs nuclear missiles with three
warheads
The first nuclear weapon left a hole in ground 2 miles wide and one and a half mile deep
Submarines equipped with ICBM
The Bay of Pigs
The day the CIA Invaded Cuba but were found out and all killed by the Cubans
Cuban Missile Crisis
In 1962 The American government found medium range ICBMs were found in Cuba. That were commanded by the Soviet Union.
what to cold war was
When the united state and the Soviet union amassing super weapons
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was made when Germany split in half and blockaded the other side from entering the other side.
The Berlin wall was built in 1961. The Berlin Wall was destroyed in 1989
with president Ronald Reagan in Berlin to see the wall taken down. But it still took till 1990 for Germany to reunite as one country again.
President During to Cold War
Harry S. Truman John F Kennedy Richard Nixon Ronald Regan
The end of the Cold War
The Soviet Civil War. The Soviet Union soon split apart after the war and caused the Cold War to end