cold war

By derrickhazemiller

  • FDR dies in Warm Springs, GA

  • Harry S. Truman tells Vyacheslav Molotov that he will be less lenient with the soviets than FDR had been.

  • Japan surrenders after being hit by two atomic bombs

  • term "cold war" coined

    Author George Orwell (Animal farm, 1984) coins the term "cold war" in the british newspaper "the tribune", contemplating a world in which everybody lives in fear of the threat of nuclear war.

  • Marshal Plan Established

  • Period: to

    cold war

  • NATO is formed

    Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Portugal and others form the North Atlantic Traty Organization to resist communist expansion.

  • soviets test first atomic bomb

  • KGB is formed

  • Berlin Wall Falls