Cold War

By moore13

  • Germany Defeated

  • Atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima

  • Iron Curtain Speech

  • Marshall Plan announced

  • Cominform set up by Stalin

  • Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia

  • Berlin Blockade begins

  • Formation of NATO

    NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

  • Berlin Blockade lifted

  • Outbreak of Korean War

  • Warsaw Pact

  • Testing of First Hydrogen Bomb

  • Death of Stalin

  • The 'Thaw'

    1953-56

  • Ceasefire in Korea

  • Khrushchev makes his secret speech

  • USSR launches first satellite - Sputnik 1

  • USA launches Pioneer 1 Spacecraft

  • U2 Crisis; Paris Summit Conference

  • Soviets launch first man into Space

  • Bay of Pigs invasion

  • First American in Space

  • Berlin Wall built

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

  • Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia

  • USA lands first man on the Moon