Timeline: Cold War Events | Timetoast

Period: May 16, 1944 to May 16, 1989

Containment
May 17, 1945

The separation of East and West Germany

This occured after the Yalta and Potsdam conferences, when the US, UK, and USSR split Germany after victory in WWII.
Mar 12, 1947

Truman Doctrine
Period: Apr 16, 1948 to Jun 9, 1952

Marshall Doctrine
Period: Jan 1, 1949 to Nov 1, 1950

Comecon 1

Commie Money Assistance
Apr 4, 1949

NATO signed/formed
May 12, 1949

Berlin Airlift ends blockade

The Berlin Airlift proved to hte Soviet Union that the wall was unsuccessful in blocking goods from transportation.
Aug 29, 1949

Soviets first atomic bomb
Period: Aug 29, 1949 to Jan 15, 1965

Soviet Bomb Testing
Oct 1, 1949

Communists win against Nationalists in Chineese Civil war
Period: Jun 23, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953

Korean War

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Mar 5, 1953

'Joe Stalin' dies

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Period: Jun 1, 1953 to Jul 28, 1991

Comecon 2

Commie Money Assistance
Period: Mar 13, 1954 to May 7, 1954

The Battle of Dien Bien Phu

A battle for the independence of French Indochina (Vietnam) from France. The revolutionists (Vietminh) won.
Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975

Vietnam War
Oct 4, 1957

Sputnik 1 is successfully launched
Aug 13, 1961

Berlin Wall erected
Period: Oct 14, 1962 to Oct 29, 1962

Cuban Missile Crisis
Period: Nov 24, 1963 to May 16, 1969

Johnson escalates Vietnam War
Jul 25, 1969

Nixon withdraws from Vietnam War

Nixon promises to remove 25,000 troops from Vietnam
Nov 15, 1969

Nixon promises to withdraw from Vietnam War

He promises to remove 35,000 more soldiers.
Period: Dec 24, 1979 to Feb 15, 1989

Soviet War in Afghanistan
Oct 3, 1990

Berlin Wall was torn down