Somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 people are believed to have been executed, including girls as young as 12 or 13. On June 28, 1950, the South Korean government, democratically elected allies of the United States and other Western allies, committed a massacre of suspected communist sympathizers in what is known as The Bodo League Massacre. On June 25, 1950, over 75,000 North Korean soldiers flooded into the Republic of Korea, on the southern end of the Korean peninsula. At times presidents cannot or will not wait for congress to act on a subject and they take it into their own hands by issuing an “Executive Order.” On July 26, 1948, President Truman issued Executive Order 9981, which ordered the desegregation of the US military. On November 25, 1947, the United States was in the glow of having decisively won World War II and stepping up to become the major economic and military power in the world, the only nation with nuclear bombs. On July 6, 1947, the Avtomat Kalashnikova went into production by the Soviet Union, hence the name AK-47. On August 8, 1946, the Consolidated Vultee B-36 Peacemaker nuclear bomber made its first flight. On May 10, 1946, at the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico the US Army made the first successful launch of a German designed V-2 rocket, the same sort of weapon the Germans had used to terrorize England and Holland during World War II. This article presents a chronological timeline of some of the more bizarre events of the Cold War! Digging Deeper From 1945 to 1991, two superpowers (the capitalist United States of America versus the communist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) challenged each other for dominance on the world stage.
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