Cold War

By knaymon
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    Key Events of the Cold War

  • Harry Truman elected president

  • Yalta and Potsdam Conferences

  • Russia declares war on Japan

  • Berlin blockade and airlift

  • US drops bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan

  • Japanese surrender End of World War II

  • Winston Churchill Iron Curtain speech

  • Churchill's Iron Curtain speech

  • Marshall Plan is announced

  • Brussels Pact organized to protect Europe from communism

  • Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan

  • Rio Pact - U.S. meet 19 Latin American countries and created a security zone around the hemisphere

  • NATO formed

  • USSR explodes an atomic bomb

  • Communist Mao Zedong takes control of China and establishes the People's Republic of China

  • Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt and loyalty tests

  • Truman approves hyrdogen bomb

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes president

  • Stalin dies

  • Nikita Krushchev leads USSR

  • Warsaw Pact formed

  • Stalin gives speech against capitalism

  • Revolt in Hungary against the USSR

  • Sputnik 1- first satellite (USSR)