Photograph of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
5 April 1951: A US Federal judge sentenced Ethel and Julius Rosenberg to death for espionage. #History #1stColdWar #USA
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
29 March 1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on charges of conspiracy to commit espionage. #History #1stColdWar
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15 March 1991: The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany came into effect.
The treaty granted full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of #Germany. #History #1stColdWar
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14 March 1961: A B-52 bomber carrying two nuclear weapons crashed near Yuba City in California. #History #1stColdWar #BrokenArrow
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12 March 1947: The Truman Doctrine, intended to help stem the spread of Communism, was announced in a speech to Congress. #History #USA #1stColdWar
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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
6 March 1951: The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg began in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. #History #USA #1stColdWar
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Klaus Fuchs
1 March 1950: Klaus Fuchs, who worked on the Manhattan Project, was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. #History #1stColdWar
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Portrait photograph of Winston Churchill
26 February 1952: Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced in Parliament that Britain had developed an atomic bomb. #History #1stColdWar
Although Churchill announced that Britain had developed an atomic bomb #OTD in 1952, the device wasn't actually tested until October of that year.
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Warsaw Pact meeting in Budapest to disband.
25 February 1991: The Warsaw Pact was disbanded at a meeting of its members in Budapest. #History #1stColdWar
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Aldrich Ames mugshot
Rosario Ames mugshot
22 February 1994: #CIA traitor Aldrich Ames, and his wife Rosario, were charged with spying for the Soviet Union by the United States Department of Justice. #History #1stColdWar
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Mugshot of Aldrich Ames
21 February 1994: CIA traitor Aldrich Ames was arrested by the FBI for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union and Russia. #History #1stColdWar
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The mushroom cloud from France's first successful nuclear test, "Gerboise Bleue".
13 February 1960: #France carried out its first successful nuclear test, codenamed "Gerboise Bleue". #History #1stColdWar
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U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers.
Mugshot of the Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
10 February 1962: Captured American #U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers was exchanged for the Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. #History #1stColdWar
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Senator Joseph McCarthy
9 February 1950: The Second Red Scare. US Senator Joseph McCarthy accused the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists. #History #USA #1stColdWar
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Badge of the Stasi
8 February 1950: The Ministry for State Security, or 'Stasi', (the state secret-police of communist East #Germany), was founded. #History #1stColdWar
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7 February 1962: The United States banned all Cuban imports and exports. #History #1stColdWar
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Chris Gueffroy was the last person to be shot dead by East German Police while attempting to cross the #Berlin Wall. #OTD in 1989. #History #1stColdWar
The Berlin Wall finally would fall just nine months later on 9 November 1989.
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Chris Gueffroy
6 February 1989: 20 year old Chris Gueffroy was shot dead by East German Police while attempting to cross the #Berlin Wall. #History #1stColdWar #BerlinWall
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Battle staff aboard Operation Looking Glass aircraft.
3 February 1961: The United States Air Force began Operation Looking Glass.
For more than 29 years, they maintained an airborne "Doomsday Plane", capable of taking direct control of US bombers & missiles in the event of the loss of the Strategic Air Command's command post. #History #USA #1stColdWar
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2 February 1989: The last Soviet armoured column left Kabul in #Afghanistan. #History #USSR #1stColdWar
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A B-52G of the type that crashed at Thule air base in 1968.
21 January 1968: A B-52 bomber crashed near Thule Air Base in Greenland.
One crew member was killed, and the conventional explosives in the nuclear payload detonated, dispersing radioactive contamination at the crash site. #History #1stColdWar
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17 January 1966: A B-52 bomber collided with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain. Seven airmen were killed, and three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs fell near the town of Palomares.
A fourth bomb fell into the sea. #History #1stColdWar
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George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin at the signing of the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Moscow.
3 January 1993: George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin signed the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Moscow. #History #1stColdWar #START
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Map of the major invasion routes during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
24 December 1979: The USSR invaded #Afghanistan. #History #1stColdWar
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The Brandenburg Gate
22 December 1989: The Brandenburg Gate in #Berlin re-opened after nearly 30 years. #History #Germany #1stColdWar
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Atlas A ICBM at Cape Canaveral.
17 December 1957: The first successful launch of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile. #History #1stColdWar
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Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev signing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
8 December 1987: US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty at the White House. #History #1stColdWar
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Portrait photograph of President Kennedy
20 November 1962: President Kennedy ended the quarantine of #Cuba after the Soviet Union agreed to remove their missiles.
US forces returned to DEFCON 4 status from DEFCON 3 on 20 November 1962, ending the Cuban Missile Crisis. #History #1stColdWar #CubanMissileCrisis
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Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev at the 1985 Geneva Summit.
19 November 1985: U.S. President Ronald #Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail #Gorbachev met for the first time at the Geneva Summit of 1985. #History #1stColdWar
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17 November 1969: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) began in Helsinki, Finland.
Representatives from the United States and Soviet Union began negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides. #History #1stColdWar
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