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Recent Event Highlights: Truman approved H-bomb development, Russia tested its first atomic bomb, and 9 more...
Created by bleidi01 on Apr 12, 2011
Last updated: 04/18/11 at 05:15 PM
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Soviet troops begin to withdraw http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_troop_withdrawal_from_Afghanistan
John F Kennedy was assasinatedhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination
The Cuban missil crisis beganhttp://library.thinkquest.org/11046/days/index.html
The us failed attempting the invasionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs
http://www.coldwar.org/articles/60s/u2_incident.asp
France created its first atomic bombshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_nuclear_weapons
The Russians launch their first space craft http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/
the hungarians revolt against the russians http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956
The US begins fighting in Koreahttp://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/kowar/kowar.htm
Truman approved the building of the H bombhttp://b-29s-over-korea.com/TrumanH-bomb/TrumansH-bomb.html
Russia"s first bombs were testedhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_testing
The american airlift begins in Berlinhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX49.html
The Berlin blockade is overhttp://www.berlinfo.com/Traveltime/Sights/sights/divided_city/hist.htm
Truman declares active role in Greek Civil warhttp://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/trudoc.asp
Winston Churchill gives his iron curtain speechhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/churchill-iron.html
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