Dustin's Cold War Timeline.

  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    It was a strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    A conference held in Potsdam in the summer of 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill drew up plans for the administration of Germany and Poland after World War II ended.
  • United Nations Formation

    United Nations Formation

    Organization founded in 1945 to promise peace.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    President Truman's promise to help nations struggling against communist movements.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    Foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western European countries after World War II.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin
  • NATO formation

    NATO formation

    A millitary alliance that was formed to counter Soviet expansion.
  • Era of McCarthyism begins

    Era of McCarthyism begins

    A senator from Wisconsin, made a speech claiming to have a list of 205 people in the State Department
  • North Korean Invasion of South Korea

    North Korean Invasion of South Korea

    This was a conflict between communists and non-communists forces in Korea.
  • Rosenberg Execution

    Rosenberg Execution

    Where Julius and Ethel were executed.
  • Armistice Signed Ending Korean War

    Armistice Signed Ending Korean War

    The war was a result of the political division of Korea by agreement of the victorious Alliesat the conclusion of the Pacific War.
  • Warsaw Pact formation

    Warsaw Pact formation

    Military alliance of the Soviet Union and its Satellite States.
  • Sputnik 1 Launched

    Sputnik 1 Launched

    Sputnik 1 was the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite.
  • House Un-American Activities Committee formed

    House Un-American Activities Committee formed

    This was an investigative committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • First Man in Space

    First Man in Space

    Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space.
  • First American in Space

    First American in Space

    Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space.
  • Creation of the Berlin Wall

    Creation of the Berlin Wall

    The border between East and West Berlin is open and daily half a million people cross the border.
  • First Man on the Moon

    First Man on the Moon

    American Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the Moon.