cold war events

By 3randon
  • Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombs

    Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombs

    The United States dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima & nagasaki killing 80,000 people on impact.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    The Truman Doctrine is an American foreign policy othat originated with the primary goal of containing soviet geopolitical expansion during the cold war.
  • USSR developes nuclear bomb

    USSR developes nuclear bomb

    The Soviet Union set off its first nuclear test known as the RDS-1 that roughly took 6 years in development.
  • Korean war

    Korean war

    This war started when North Korea invaded South Korea in the 50s and lasted for about 3-4 years.

  • Vietnam war

    conflict irrupted between north vietnam, and south vietnam when the U.S provided funding, and training to south vietnams goverment.

  • sputnik

    the Soviet union sent their first artificial Earth satellite into low Earth orbit. The satellite lasted 3 weeks until the batteries died.

  • Berlin wall

    The Berlin wall divided Berlin from East Germany and was guarded it stood from 1961-1989.

  • Cuban missile crisis

    This event lasted for a month and a half going back and foward with the U.S and Soviet Union.

  • Russia invaded Afghanistan

    Russia invaded Afghanistan to re-establish a govermnent the way they want it.

  • Collapse of Soiviet Union

    Multiple states did not want to be apart of the Soviet Union and instaed wanted to establish a commonwealth of independent states.