Cold War Timeline

  • War in elsalvador

    War in elsalvador
    The Salvadoran Civil War was a conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
  • Communist win China

    Communist win China
    the leaders of the Nationalist and Communist parties, Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, met for a series of talks on the formation of a post-war government.
  • Atomic Bomb

    Atomic Bomb
  • US and to Turkey

    US and to Turkey
    decided to aid Turkey and get involved
  • US and to Greece

    US and to Greece
    the extension of military and economic and to Greece plunged the US into Greek affairs.
  • Molotov Plan

    Molotov Plan
    Molotov Plan
    "The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe."
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    "The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe"
  • USSR gets atomic bomb

    USSR gets atomic bomb
    The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War
  • Nato Est

    Nato Est
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • Korean war

    Korean war
    Korean war
    The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea
  • Coup in Iran

    Coup in Iran
    Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état, was the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh
  • Coup in Guatemala

    Coup in Guatemala
    The Guatemalan Cooperative Movement and its integration organizations adopted the flag proposed by the International Cooperative Alliance
  • Communist Angola

    Communist Angola
    Three main military movements had been fighting for Angolan independence since the 1960s.
  • Suez canal crsis

    Suez canal crsis
    Suez canal crisis
    The Suez Crisis or the Second Arab–Israeli War also named the Tripartite Aggression and Operation Kadesh
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite.
  • Sandinista rose up in Nicaragua

    Sandinista rose up in Nicaragua
    The Nicaraguan Revolution encompassed the rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship
  • Cuba

    Cuba
    Cuba is a Caribbean island nation under communist rule.
  • China explodes atomic bomb

    China explodes atomic bomb
    The People’s Republic of China joins the rank of nations with atomic bomb capability, after a successful nuclear tes
  • Coup in Chile

    Coup in Chile
    Chilean coup d'état was a watershed event in both the history of Chile and the Cold War.
  • Iran islamic revolution

    Iran islamic revolution
    The Iranian Revolution refers to events involving the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
  • Soviets invade Afghanistan

    Soviets invade Afghanistan
    The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years, from December 1979 to February 1989.
  • Evil Empire speech

    Evil Empire speech
    The phrase evil empire was first applied to the Soviet Union in 1983 by U.S
  • Star Wars

    Star Wars
    Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas
  • Iran contra affair

    Iran contra affair
    he Iran–Contra affair, also referred to as Iran gate, Contra gate or the Iran–Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States
  • Buffer states of the USSR

    Buffer states of the USSR
    Poland and other states between Germany and the Soviet Union have sometimes been described as buffer states
  • Fear Of The Berlin Wall

    Fear Of The Berlin Wall
    The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin
  • Fall of the USSR

    Fall of the USSR
    The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred on December 26, 1991, officially granting self-governing independence to the Republics of the Soviet Union
  • beginning of in Vietnam

    beginning of in Vietnam
    The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact
    The Warsaw Pact, so named because the treaty was signed in Warsaw, included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members.