Cold War Time Line

  • House Un-american Activities committee formed

    House Un-american Activities committee formed

    investigate domestic radicals including Nazis
  • United nations formation

    United nations formation

    voted to assist South Korea in maintaining their independence.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    Plans are made in Yalta and finalized in Potsdam
  • Postdam Conference

    Postdam Conference

    Stalin refuses free elections at Potsdam
  • truman doctorine

    truman doctorine

    offers aid and food to Greece and Turkey so they can resist communism.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    opens that aid to other European countries.
  • berlin airlift

    berlin airlift

    brings food and supplies to people trapped in Berlin after Stalin blockades to city- hoping to starve them into submission
  • NATO Formation

    NATO Formation

    a military alliance joining nations of Western Europe and North America.
  • Era of McCartheism begins

    Era of McCartheism begins

    uring the early years of the Cold War, the anticommunist witch hunt that we now call McCarthyism swept through American society
  • North Korea invasion of South Karea

    North Korea invasion of South Karea

    North Karea invades South Karea
  • Rosenburg Execution

    Rosenburg Execution

    Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's historic execution
  • Armistice Signed Ending of Korean War

    Armistice Signed Ending of Korean War

    A ceasefire stopped the fighting
  • Warsaw Pact Formation

    Warsaw Pact Formation

    was formed by the Soviet Union and its satellites in respose to NATO.
  • Sputnik 1 launched

    Sputnik 1 launched

    Satellite was first to leave Earth’s atmosphere.
  • First man in space

    First man in space

    Yugi was first in space.
  • first american in space

    first american in space

    Alan sheperd becomes first american to go into space
  • Creation of the Berlin Wall

    Creation of the Berlin Wall

    the berlin wall was created
  • First man on moon

    First man on moon

    Neil Armstrong becomes first man to walk on the moon