Cold war

Cold War Era

By normac01

  • COLD WAR STARTED

    YALPA CONFERENTE The meeting was with the USA and Great Britain and Soviet Union
  • THE U.S. USED THE ATOMIC BOMB

    THE U.S. USED THE ATOMIC BOMB

    U.S. drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima killing 80,000 people

  • END OF WW2

    Japan surrenders
  • NATO

    NATO

    NATO ratified
  • Period: to

    KOREAN WAR

  • NUCLEAR ARMS RACE

    11 atomic test start in Nevada

  • WARSAW PACT FORMED

    Named because the treaty was signed in Warsaw, included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members
  • SPUTNIK LAUNCHED INTO ORBIT BY USSR

    SPUTNIK LAUNCHED INTO ORBIT BY USSR

    The world's first satellite, marking the start of the space race between the U.S. and the USSR.
  • EXPLORER 1 LAUNCHED

    EXPLORER 1 LAUNCHED

    U.S. launched its own satellite
  • FIDEL CASTRO TAKES OVER CUBA

    FIDEL CASTRO TAKES OVER CUBA

  • KHRUSHCHEV VISITS THE US

    KHRUSHCHEV VISITS THE US

    First Soviet leader to visit the United States
  • JOHN F. KENNEDY ELECTED PRESIDENT

    JOHN F. KENNEDY ELECTED PRESIDENT

  • BAY OF PIGS

    An invasion to overthrow of Castro.
  • BERLIN WALL

    BERLIN WALL

    Construction starts to build the Berlin Wall

  • CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

    Nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union in Cuba.

  • VIETNAM WAR

    US sends troops over to fight.
  • APOLLO 11

    APOLLO 11

    lands on the moon

  • VIETNAM WAR OVER

    North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam which falls to Communist forces.

  • PRESIDEN REAGAN & GORBACHEV

    agree to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe
  • BERLIN WALL COMES DOWN

    BERLIN WALL COMES DOWN

  • END OF THE COLD WAR