Cold War Time Line By Alix MacDonald

  • House Un-American Activities formed

    House Un-American Activities formed

    It was created to investigate alleged disloyality and subversive activities on the part of private citizines, public employes and organizations supected of having Communists ties.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met at Yalta on the Black Sea in February 1945 to discuss final strategy and crucial questions concerning plans for a postwar world.
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    The Potsdam Conference is a conference between Stalin and Truman. Truman left Potsdam thinking that the Soviet Union was “planning world conquest” and that we were losing ou alliance with the Soviet Union.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    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

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a military alliance joining Western Europe and North America
  • Era of McCarthyism

    Era of McCarthyism

    McCarthyism was based on the actions of Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthyism also because a catchword for the extreme reckless charges.
  • North Korean Invasion of South Korea

    North Korean Invasion of South Korea

    North Korea invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950. Within days the South is all but defeated.
  • Rosenberg Execution

    Rosenberg Execution

    Julius and Ethel Rosenburg were found guilty of relaying U.S Military secrets to the Soviet Union and sentenced to death
  • Armistice Signed Ending Korean War

    Armistice Signed Ending Korean War

    signed in July 1953 between North and South Korea
  • Warsaw Pact formation

    Warsaw Pact formation

    was formed by the Soviet Union and its satellites in response to NATO
  • Sputnik 1 Launched

    Sputnik 1 Launched

    first satellite to leave the Earth's atmosphere
  • First Man in Space

    First Man in Space

    Yuri Gargarin rode in the USSR to get to space.
  • First American in Space

    First American in Space

    Alan Shepherd used the Mercury Freedom 7 to get to space.
  • Creation of the Berlin Wall

    Creation of the Berlin Wall

    the Berlin Wall was a dividing wall built by Eastern Germany to isolate West Berlin from Communist that controlled East Berlin.
  • First Man On The Moon

    First Man On The Moon

    Neil Armstrong uses Apollo 11 lands on the moon