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16th November 1933: The USA establishes formal diplomatic relations with the USSR

  • 16th November 2023
  • Tagged as: America, Cold War, Diplomacy, Politics, Roosevelt, United States, USA, USSR

Roosevelt announced the establishment of formal diplomatic relations with the USSR on 16 November, and appointed William C. Bullitt as the first Ambassador to the Soviet Union.

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9th November 1979: A computer error at NORAD reports that the USSR had fired hundreds of nuclear missiles at the USA

  • 9th November 2023
  • Tagged as: America, Atomic Bomb, Cold War, Missile, NORAD, Nuclear, Soviet Union, United States, USA, USSR

When news of the incident reached the Soviet Union, party leader Leonid Brezhnev wrote to Carter condemning the ‘tremendous danger’ caused by the error.

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26th September 1983: Nuclear war avoided after Soviet detection system wrongly identifies incoming ballistic missile

  • 26th September 2023
  • Tagged as: Atomic Bomb, Cold War, Nuclear, Nuclear War, Satellite, Soviet Union, Technology, United States, USA, USSR, War

Nuclear war was avoided when Russian officer Stanislav Petrov rejected early warning system reports of incoming ballistic missiles as a false alarm.

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23rd September 1949: President Truman announces the USSR’s first nuclear test

  • 23rd September 2023
  • Tagged as: America, Atomic Bomb, Cold War, Manhattan Project, Nuclear, Science, Technology, Truman, United States, USA, USSR

‘The eventual development of this new force by other nations was to be expected. This probability has always been taken into account by us’.

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30th August 1963: The Moscow-Washington hotline enters operation

  • 30th August 2023
  • Tagged as: Capitalism, Cold War, Communism, Kremlin, Moscow, Pentagon, Soviet Union, United States, USA, USSR, Washington

The Moscow–Washington hotline entered operation, providing a direct link between the Kremlin and the Pentagon.

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29th August 1949: USSR successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon, codenamed RDS-1 and nicknamed First Lightning

  • 29th August 2023
  • Tagged as: America, Atomic Bomb, Cold War, Communism, Manhattan Project, Nuclear, Science, Soviet Union, Technology, USA, USSR, War

The explosion had the power of 22 kilotons of TNT, and was 50% more destructive than its designers had expected.

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23rd August 1939: Molotov and Ribbentrop from the USSR and Nai Germany sign the Nazi-Soviet Pact

  • 23rd August 2023
  • Tagged as: Europe, Germany, Hitler, Molotov, Nazi, Non-Aggression, Pact, Poland, Ribbentrop, Second World War, Stalin, USSR

On the surface the pact guaranteed that neither side would fight against the other in war. However a ‘secret protocol’ also outlined how Eastern Europe would be divided between the two countries in the future.

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15th July 1975: The Apollo Soyuz Test Project lifted off

  • 15th July 2023
  • Tagged as: Science, Soviet Union, Space, Space Race, Technology, United States, USA, USSR

The two rockets of the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project launched from the USA and the USSR in the first international collaborative space mission.

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25th May 1961: US President John F. Kennedy announces his plans for a manned moon landing before the end of the decade

  • 25th May 2023
  • Tagged as: America, Cold War, Kennedy, Moon, NASA, Space, Space Race, United States, USA, USSR

Kennedy’s $24 billion of investment did work, and Apollo 11 achieved Kennedy’s goal by landing on the moon on 20 July 1969.

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14th May 1955: The establishment of the Warsaw Pact

  • 14th May 2023
  • Tagged as: Cold War, Comecon, Communism, NATO, Poland, Socialist, USSR, Warsaw, Warsaw Pact, West Germany

The USSR and seven other European countries signed the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance better known as the Warsaw Pact.

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