Cold War

By JJMinor
  • The United Nations were formed

    The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization aiming to maintain international peace.
  • Truman Doctrine

    The Truman Doctrine is an American foreign policy that originated with the primary goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
  • Hollywood 10

    The Hollywood Ten is a 1950 American 16mm short documentary film.
  • Marshall Plan

    The Marshall Plan was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred over $13 billion in economic recovery programs to Western European economies
  • Nato formed

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance among 28 European countries and 2 North American countries.
  • Korean War

    The Korean War was a war fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and rebellions in South Korea.
  • Space Race/Sputnik

    The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War adversaries, the Soviet Union and the United States, to achieve superior spaceflight capability
  • Bay of Pigs

    The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution
  • Berlin Wall goes up

    Germany created the Berlin wall to prevent scientists doctors and people of importance from moving into West Berlin
  • U.S. official enters Vietnam War

    The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, also known as the U.S.S. Maddox incident, marked the formal entry of the United States into the Vietnam War.
  • Soviets invade Afghanistan

    The Soviet-Afghan War was a conflict wherein insurgent groups known collectively as the Mujahideen, as well as smaller Marxist–Leninist–Maoist groups, fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Army throughout the 1980s, mostly in the Afghan countryside
  • Berlin Wall comes down

    A pivotal event in world history that marked the fall of the Iron Curtain and the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe.