Cold war timeline

By soccergig14

  • Civil War in Nicaragua

    mexico, sacasa, the U.S.
    - Sacasa returned from exile in Mexico and, with Mexican aid, established a rival liberal government on Nicaragua's east coast. A civil war erupted between liberal rebels under General Jose Maria Moncada and the government under Diaz, who requested and received military assistance from the United States.

  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam, Japan, U.S
    - Amid rumors of a possible American invasion, Japanese oust the French colonial government which had been operating independently and seize control of Vietnam, installing Bao Dai as their puppet ruler.

  • Mao Zedong takes control of China

    china, nationalists, communists, soviet union,
    they forced nationalism upon china.

  • Soviet Invasion of Hungary

    poland, U.S, soviet union,
    - On October 23, 1956, a Budapest student rally in support of Polish efforts to win autonomy from the Soviet Union sparked mass demonstrations. The police attacked, and the demonstrators fought back, tearing down symbols of Soviet domination and HWP rule, sacking the party newspaper's offices and shouting in favor of free elections, national independence, and the return of Imre Nagy to power.

  • • Fidel Castro Takes Over Cuba

    castro moved into Havana and became the self appointed premier of cuba.

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    U.S and Cuba
    Increasing friction between the U.S. government and Castro's leftist regime led President Dwight D. Eisenhower to break off diplomatic relations with Cuba in January 1961.

  • cuban missle crisis

    U.S, Soviet union, Cuba,
    The Cuban missle crisis was a come back from the failed pigs invasion. cuba (khrushchev) secretly built 42 missle sites in cuba, america discovered these sights and demanded that they be shut down due to how close they were to america's homelands.

  • soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia

    romania, Czechoslovakia, soveit union was who was involved.
    Czechoslovakia rejected the soviet unions call for more military integration, they sought greater in planning and strategy for the warsaw pacts non soviet members. all the events heated up in the 1968 during the Prague Spring period. CSLA commanders put forward plans to democratize the armed forces, On August 20, 1968, Warsaw Pact forces--including troops from Bulgaria, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), Hungary, Poland, an

  • the SALT talks.

    U.S, soviet union.
    the U.S preswident nixon of 1972 was the first president to visit the soviet union since the beggining of the cold war. They had a talk about Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. This was a five year agreement limiting the number of intercontinental ballistic and submarine launched missles every country could have.

  • Nixon Visits China

    U.S, China, Soviet Union
    they were afraid that china was going to hurt the SALT agreement so they applied for a SALT II agreement and it was declined. tensions began to build.

  • Korean War

    U.S, Soviet union, Korea
    the Soviets gambled that the U.S would not protect or aid korea so they supplied korea with tanks, air planes, and money in attempt to take over the peninsuala.

  • Revolution in Iran

    could also be known as the secular values crash.
    middle east, iran, persia.
    the shah in iran was puttin western influences on his people until he was put out of power by muhammad mossadeq. america feared that he may turn to the soviets for help so we arrested him and restored the shah to power.

  • Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

    Iran, Afghanistan, Soviet Union, U.S
    for a long time Afghanistan was a indepencdant place both from the U.S and the soviets. however soviet influence was incresasing..the muslims revolted this threatened to topple afghanistans communist regime. this triggered a soviet invasion.

  • Iran / Iraque war

    Iran, Iraq, U.S.
    The muslima wanted to unite which caused even more tension, the cultures clashed causing a war between the two. they fought for two years

  • Mikhail Gorbachev takes control of USSR

    Soviet official, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1985 to 1991 and president of the Soviet Union in 1990–91. His efforts to democratize his country’s political system and decentralize its economy led to the downfall of communism and the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.

  • Soviet Union Falls Apart

    U.S, Soviet union
    In December of 1991, as the world watched in amazement, the Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was hailed by the west as a victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism.

  • Fall of the berlin wall

    Germany, Berlin.
    Berlin's leader that was at one time Honecker forced the berlin people to stay in one place and put up what was called the berlin wall. Well people began to protest against him so so was forced to resign in october of 1989. The new leader egon krenz tore down the wall in a symbol of freedom and stability.