Timeline: Cold War Abroad | Timetoast

Sep 2, 1945

World war 2 ends and the cold war begins.

http://study.com/academy/lesson/two-super-powers-the-united-states-and-the-soviet-union.html?scrlybrkr=f353eb99
Mar 5, 1946

1946- Winston Churchill delivers the iron curtain speech

It separates east to west.
http://www.lifezette.com/video/churchill-gives-iron-curtain-speech/
May 12, 1948

May 1948- US and Britain break the soviet blockade of west Berlin with the Berlin airlift.

When Britain and the US tried breaking down the blockade. http://study.com/academy/lesson/post-war-europe-the-berlin-airlift-the-marshall-plan.html?scrlybrkr=f353eb99
Apr 4, 1949

1949- North Atlantic treaty organization is formed.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-tillerson-idUSKBN16S04I?scrlybrkr=e341d05c
Jun 25, 1950

1950 to 1953- Korean War.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/26/asia/north-korea-chance-of-war/?scrlybrkr=4e47d878
May 8, 1954

1954- Vietnam War Begins.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/01/world/vietnam-war-fast-facts/?scrlybrkr=4e47d878
May 14, 1955

1955- Warsaw Pact is formed.

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/iron-curtain-countries-answer-n-a-t-o
Apr 17, 1961

1961- US is defeated and humiliated at the bay of pigs in Cuba.

https://america.cgtn.com/2014/04/20/cubans-celebrate-bay-of-pigs-anniversary
Aug 13, 1961

August 1961- Berlin wall is built.

http://www.the-berlin-wall.com/videos/the-berlin-wall-goes-up-and-statement-of-willy-brandt-532/
Oct 22, 1962

October 1962- Cuban Missile Crisis.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/15/world/americas/cuban-missile-crisis-fifty-years/?scrlybrkr=4e47d878
Dec 13, 1974

1974- Vietnam war is over.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/23/living/the-seventies-time-magazine-vietnam-war/?scrlybrkr=4e47d878
Nov 9, 1989

November 1989- Fall of Berlin wall

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/11219434/Berlin-Wall-How-the-Wall-came-down-as-it-happened-25-years-ago-live.html?scrlybrkr=05b5ea28
Oct 3, 1990

October 1990- Germany is reunited

http://www.the-berlin-wall.com/videos/germany-reunited-1990-737/
Dec 25, 1991

December 1991- Soviet union collapses.

http://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/dec-1991-end-soviet-union-12326187?scrlybrkr=6d8e3674