COLD WAR

By dtripeny

  • start

    cold war starts

  • cival war

    Truman declares active role in Greek civil war

  • containment

    containment starts

  • communists

    Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia

  • Russia

    Russia tested its first atomic bomb

  • approval

    Truman approved H-bomb development

  • federal

    Federal Civil Defense Administration established

  • KGB

    KGB established

  • warsaw

    Warsaw Pact formed

  • Egypt

    Suez Crisis began with Israeli attack led by Moshe Dayan against Egyptian forces in the Sinai Egypt took control of Suez Canal

  • Khrushchev

    Khrushchev demands withdrawal of troops from Berlin

  • JFK

    John F. Kennedy elected President of USA

  • JFK

    President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas

  • nixon

    President Johnson does not run for the presidency and Richard Nixon Elected President of the USA

  • reagan

    President Reagan becomes president