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