-
Period: to
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)