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Cold War

By ShellyShell24

  • Yalta Conference meeting of FDR, Churchill, Stalin - the 'Big Three'Soviet Union has control of Eastern Europe. The Cold War Begins

  • Period: to

    COLD WAR

    http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/03-cold-war-timeline.htm

  • Enola Gay dropped on Hiroshima

  • Bockscar dropped on Nagaski

  • Japanese surrender End of World War II

  • Sinews of Peace" Iron Curtain Speech by Winston Churchill - "an "iron curtain" has descended on Europe"

  • hurchill gives his famous "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri

  • Truman Doctrine - Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War

  • A speech by President Harry S. Truman Truman Doctrine," containment of Communism

  • Truman's Loyalty Program created to catch Cold War spies

  • NATO Ratified

  • Truman Fires MacAruthur

  • USSR sent tanks into Poznan, Poland, to suppress demonstrations by workers

  • USSR sent military aid to Afghanistan

  • Sputnik launched into orbit

  • Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory

  • John F. Kennedy elected President of USA

  • Bay of Pigs invasion

  • Construction of Berlin Wall begins

  • North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam which falls to Communist forces

  • End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends