Cold War Timeline

  • Assassination of Diem
    1963 BCE

    Assassination of Diem

    Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem. President of south Veitnam
  • Russian Revolution

    Russian Revolution

    Collapse of an empire uner Trsar NIcholas ll
  • Army-McCarthy Hearings

    Army-McCarthy Hearings

    The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations to investigate conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy.
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    The conference was for the three allies would rebuild the borders and Germany.
  • Atomic Bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki

    Atomic Bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki

    The U.S. dropped a atomic bomb onto Hiroshima. After that we dropped a bomb over Nagasaki that made them surrender. (;
  • Iron Curtain

    Iron Curtain

    This was just a phrase from a british prime minister. Hia name was Winston CHurchill's
  • Molotov Plan

    Molotov Plan

    The system was made by the SU in 1947 to help rebuild the countries.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    Political ,economic, and military would be provided by the US . A lot of countries worried about failing communism
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    The marshall plan was to help the aid, and rebuild western european economies
  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade

    This event was huge in the cold war
  • NATO

    NATO

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    The berlin Airlift was at the end of the berlin blockade by 1949
  • Soviet Bomb Test

    Soviet Bomb Test

    On this exact date the soviet union set of their first bomb
  • Hollywood 10

    Hollywood 10

    About 10 hollywood actors were hired for denouncing blacklisting
  • Alger Hiss Case

    Alger Hiss Case

    was accused of being a spy in 1948
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    a war between north korea and south korea
  • Rosenberg Trial

    Rosenberg Trial

    Ethel and Julius Rosenberg got caught for spying on the soviet union
  • Battle of Dien Bien Phu

    Battle of Dien Bien Phu

    The battle was the first altercation in the indochina was between the french
  • Geneva Conference

    Geneva Conference

    A meeting with multiple nations held in Geneva on how to dissolve issues led to the korean war
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    Treaty of friendship. idkk...
  • Hungarian Revolution

    Hungarian Revolution

    was a nationwide revolt against the communist goverment
  • U2 Incident

    U2 Incident

    A U2 spy plane accident between the U.S. and the soviet union in the cold war
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Fidel Castro cameto power in an armed revolt that overthre cuba dictaor fulgencio basrista
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall was guarded barrier that divided berlin
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    The Soviet union engaged in tense thirteen days
  • Assassination of JFK

    Assassination of JFK

    JFK was assassination in Dallas TX while riding in a motorade
  • Tonkin Gulf Resolution

    Tonkin Gulf Resolution

    Congress had passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, letting president Johnson take measures that he believed in
  • Operation Rolling Thunder

    Operation Rolling Thunder

    This was just a code name for american bombing campaign
  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive

    This was one of the largest military of the veitnam war
  • Assassination of MLK

    Assassination of MLK

    Marin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader who was shot..
  • Assassination of RFK

    Assassination of RFK

    Robert F. Kennedy was only 42 years old when he got assassinated in a hotel
  • Invasion of Czechoslovakia

    Invasion of Czechoslovakia

    The invastion of Czecholsovakia was also known as an operation Danube.
  • Riots of Democratic Convention

    Riots of Democratic Convention

    In 1968 Democratic National Convention included many of thosands of people to protest.
  • Election of Nixon

    Election of Nixon

    November 5, 1968 the republican nomiee formerd his voice when he defeated the democratic nommiee
  • Kent State

    Kent State

    May 4, 1970 was a shooting of a college student by memebers of the ohio national guard
  • Nixon visits China

    Nixon visits China

    Nixon visted china for an important overturn that marked the culmination
  • Ceasefire in Vietnam

    Ceasefire in Vietnam

    January 15 1973 president nixon orderd the US troops to bomb north vietnam
  • Fall of Saigon

    Fall of Saigon

    Fall of Saugon was also known as the liberation of Saigon .
  • Reagan Elected

    Reagan Elected

    Ronald Wilson Regean was an actor and politician for was our president in the 40th spot
  • SDI Announced

    SDI Announced

    Strategic Defensive Initiative was a missle defense system intended to protect the US
  • Geneva Conference with Gorbachev

    Geneva Conference with Gorbachev

    In 8 years the leader of the soviet union and the united states hold to summit confernse
  • 'Tear down this wall' Speech

    'Tear down this wall' Speech

    this sline " tear down this wall" was said by Ronald in west berlin
  • Fall of Berlin Wall

    Fall of Berlin Wall

    The Berlin Wall got taken down at the very end of the cold war