cold war

By joselynV

  • yalta conference

    u.s drops an atomic bomb on hiroshima japan postdam conferencen-truman -stalin and british divide up europe
  • first east european communist goverment set up in albania

    first east european communist goverment set up in albania

  • berlin airlift begins ends may 19, 1949

    berlin airlift begins ends may 19, 1949

  • truman approved H-bomb development

    truman approved H-bomb development

  • federal civil defense administration established

    federal civil defense administration established

    april 11truman fires MacArthurt
  • March 17-June 4 Nuclear Arms Race atomic test series of 11 explosions at Nevada Test Site

    March 17-June 4 Nuclear Arms Race atomic test series of 11 explosions at Nevada Test Site

    July : Korean War ends December 8: Ike's Atoms for Peace speech
  • March 1: H-bomb Castle-Bravo test

    March 1: H-bomb Castle-Bravo test

    U.S. sponsored coup overthrows Guatemalan government.
    Sept. Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) formed.
  • Warsaw Pact formed

    Warsaw Pact formed

    July First Summit Meeting between President Dwight Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev
  • June 29: USSR sent tanks into Poznan, Poland, to suppress demonstrations by workers

    June 29: USSR sent tanks into Poznan, Poland, to suppress demonstrations by workers

    1956 Nov. Red Army crushes the Hungarian Revolution
  • October 4 : Sputnik launched into orbit

    October 4 : Sputnik launched into orbit

    November 3: Sputnik II launched - Laika died in space
  • January 31: Explorer I launched

    January 31: Explorer I launched

    November : Khrushchev demands withdrawal of troops from Berlin
  • January : Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro

    January : Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro

    Feb. Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba, installs Communist government.
  • December 19: Cuba openly aligns itself with the Soviet Union and their policies.

    December 19: Cuba openly aligns itself with the Soviet Union and their policies.

    May : Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory
  • cuban civil crisis

    cuban civil crisis

    the Spanish and its battles afterward to gain its independence. Since the Communist Cuba has been involved with many major conflicts of the Cold War in Africa and Latin America where it had supported Marxist governments and rebels from liberation movements who were opposed to their colonial masters
  • 1970April : President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia

    1970April : President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia

    April 30, 1970 marks the date of President Richard Nixon’s address to the United States stating that the Vietnam war would be mobilized to Cambodia
  • April 17 : North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam which falls to Communist forces

    April 17 : North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam which falls to Communist forces

  • January: U.S. and China establish diplomatic relations.

    January: U.S. and China establish diplomatic relations.

    Dec. Soviet Red Army invades Afghanistan
  • Polish shipyard workers strike, Solidarity Union formed.

    Polish shipyard workers strike, Solidarity Union formed.

    August: Polish shipyard workers strike Solidarity Union formed. Strike leader Lech Walesa is elected as the head of Solidarity
  • January : Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan

    January : Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan

    May Led by university students, over one million Chinese in Tiananmen Square demand reforms by the Chinese Communist government.
  • August : End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends

    August : End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends

    Aug. Hard-line Communists stage unsuccessful coup against Mikhail Gorbachev.
    Dec. The Soviet Union is abolished. Boris Yeltsin becomes President of Russia.