Cold War

  • house unamerican activities committee formed

    investigation committee
  • potsdam conference

    potsdam conference
    meeting of the principal allies in WW2 to clarify and implement agreements
  • united nations formation

    united nations formation
    was a lengthly and political process
  • Marshall plan.

    Marshall plan.
    prevented communism from getting a strong hold in war torn countries.
  • the trueman doctrine

    the trueman doctrine
    the united states would provide political military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarion forces.
  • berlin airlift

    berlin airlift
    first of many crisis situations that emerged during the cold war.
  • NATO formation

    the cold war fears them.
  • era of mccathyism begins

    big factor between polictics
  • north korea invasion of south korea

    it was over the democratic and republican parites
  • warsawpact formation

    warsawpact formation
    they dont have independent organizatins.
  • sputnik 1 launched

    sputnik 1 launched
    first rocket to go to space
  • first man in space

    first man in space
    Yuri Gargarin
  • first american in space

    first american in space
    allen shaper
  • creation of the berlin wall

    paved way for German reunification
  • first man on the moon

    first man on the moon
    neil armstrong
  • rosenberg execution

    rosenberg execution
    first civilian to be sentanced to death