Cold War Timeline

By awilkie

  • The start of the cold war

    Defeat of Germany and Japan

  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference meeting of FDR, Churchhill, stalin - 'the Big Tree' Soviet Union has control of Eastern Europe. The Cold War Begins

  • VE Day

    VE day- Victory in Europe. Germany surrenders to the Red Army in Berlin

  • Potsdam Conference

    Germany was offcially partitioned into four zones of occupation

  • Atomic Bomb

    The United States droped atomic bombs on hiroshima (20 kiloton bomb 'Little Boy' kills 80,000)

  • Russia

    Russia declares war on Japan

  • Second Atomic bomb

    The United States Drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki (22 kiloton ' Fat Man' kills 70,000)

  • Surrendering

    Japanese surrender End of World War II

  • VJ Day

    Emperor surrender broadcast

  • Beging of 1946

    Stalin hostile speach - communism & Capitalism were incompatible

  • "Sinews Of Peace"

    iron Curtain Speech by Winston Churchill - "an ironcurtain" has descended

  • Truman

    Truamn demands Russia leave Iran

  • Start of 1947 Containment

    Truman Doctrine- Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War

  • Operation Crossroads

    With test able was te first public demonstration of America's atomic arsenal

  • America's Test baker

    underwater explosion

  • Marshall plan

    Marshall Plan is announced setting a precedent for helping countries combat poverty, desease and malnutrition

  • Rio Pack

    U.S meet 19 ls Latin American countries and created a security Zone around the hemisphere

  • Start of 1948 Containment

    Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia

  • Truman

    Truman's loyalty program created to catch cold War Spies

  • Brussels Pack

    organized to protect Europe from communism

  • Berlin Blockade

    begins lasting 11 months

  • Communist Witch hunt

    Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt and loyalty test

  • Start of 1949 Containment

    NATO ratified

  • Berlin Blockade ends

  • Korean War

    Stalin supports North Korea who invade South Korea equipped with Soviet weapons

  • Russoa tested its first atomic bomb

  • Communist Mao Zedong

    takes control of china and establishes the people's Republic of China

  • Federal Cilvil Defense

    Administration Established

  • Truman

    fires MacArthur

  • A- Bombs

    developed by Britain

  • Nuclear Arms Race Atomic (March 17-June 4)

    test series of 111 explosions at Nevada Test Site

  • RAND Report

    on the "Vulnerability of U.S Strategic Air Power"

  • Korean

    Korean War ends

  • Ike's Atoms for peace

  • H-bomb

    Castle-Bravo test

  • KGB established

    CIA helps overthrow unfriendly regimes in iran and Guatemala

  • Vietnam split at 17th parallel

  • Warsaw Pact formed

  • USSR......

    sent takes into Poznan, poland, to supress demonstrations by workers

  • URRS

    sent military aid to Afghanistan

  • Rebellion

    put down in Communist Hungary October- november

  • Suex crisis

    began with israeli attack led by Moshe Dayan against Egyptian forces in the sinai Egypt took control of Suez

  • Vostok

    rocket launched 1st ICBM

  • Sputnik

    launched into orbit

  • Sputnik 2

    launched - Laika died in space

  • Explorer 1 launched

  • NASA

    began Mercury project using Atlas rocket

  • Khrushchev

    demands withdrawal of troops from berlin

  • Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro

  • Khrushchev

    visits United states ; The Kitchen Debate

  • A- bombs Developed by france

  • Soviet Union

    reveals that U.S spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory

  • John F Kennedy

    elected President of USA

  • Cuba

    opeanly aligns itself with the Soviet Union and their Policies

  • Berlin border is closed

  • Construction

    of berlin Wall begans

  • U.S involvement in Vietnam increases

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Gulf of Tonkin incident

  • A-bomb developed by china

  • U.S Marines

    sent to Dominican Republic to fight Communism

  • Announcement of dispatching

    of 200,000 U.S troops to vietnam

  • B-52s

    Bomb North Vietnam

  • The US secretary of Defence

    Robert McNameara admits that the US bombing raids had failed to meet their objectives

  • North Korea captured U.S.S Pueblo

  • President Johnson

    does not run for the presidency and Richard Nixon Elected President of the USA

  • Soviet REd Army Crush Csechoslovakian revolt

  • Apollo 11 lands on the moon

  • President Nixon entends Vietnam War to Cambodia

  • Publication of the Pentagon Papers

  • President Richard Nixton visits china

  • S.A.L.T 1 was signed

  • Cease Fire

    in vietnam between North Vietnam and United states

  • U.S supported coup overthrows Chilean goverment

  • Egypt and Syria

    attack Israel ; Egypt requests Soviet aid

  • President Nixon resigns

  • North Vietnam

    defeats SouVietnam which falls to Communist forces

  • Soviet and Cuban

    Forces help to install Communist goverment in Angola

  • U.S and China

    establish diplomatic relations

  • S.A.L.T 2 Signed

  • Shah of Iran overthrown:

    Iraian Hostage Crisis

  • Polish shipyard Workers strike Solidarity Union formed.

    Strike leader Lech Walesa is elected as the Head of Solidarity.

  • U.S troops invades and overthrows regime in Grenada

  • President Reagan proposes Strategic Defence Initiative

  • Mikhail Gorbachev

    becomes leader ofr the Soviet Union initiating a campaign of openness called "Glasnost" and restructuring called "perestroika"

  • Reagan and Gorbachev

    agree to remove all medium and short-range nuclear missiles from Europe

  • President Reagan and Gorbachev

    resovle to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe

  • Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan

  • Communist Government

    fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Rumania

  • Berlin Wall is demolished and East Germany

    allows unrestricted migration to West Germany

  • Poland becomes independent

  • Hungary becomes independent

  • decline of the Soviet empire

  • lithuania becomes independent

  • End of the Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends

  • Boris Yeltsin elected as president of Russia

  • Germany reunited

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