Cold War Time Line Project (P8)

  • Yalta Conference

    Start of Cold War
  • Potsdam

    Truman demands free elections in Eastern Europe
  • Winston Churchill

    English Prime Minister
  • George Kennan

    Father of containment
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    Statement that the US will provide aid to all democratic nations of the verge of communism
  • Berlin Air Lift

    Planes fly supplies into West Germany
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    An American initiative to aid Western Europe
  • Arms Race

    US and USSR competition with weapons
  • COMECON

    COMECON

    An economic organization under the leadership of the Soviet Union
  • NATO

    NATO

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance
  • Korean War

    UN vs communist forces in Korea
  • Eisenhower

    Eisenhower

    Eisenhower was an American politician and Army general who served as the President of the United States
  • Khrushchev

    Khrushchev

    Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was a politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War.
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states
  • Hungarian Revolution

    anti-Soviet revolts in Hungary
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

    the first artificial Earth satellite
  • Space Race

    US and USSR competition to see who could progress into space the fastest
  • Fidel Castro

    Fidel Castro

    A Cuban revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister
  • U2 Incident

    U2 Incident

    A United States spy plane was shot down while in USSR territory
  • John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy

    An American politician who served as the President of the United States
  • Yuri Gagarin

    Yuri Gagarin

    a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. first man in space.
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs

    bay of pigs was a U.S. attempt at regaining democratic control in Cuba. It failed.
  • Berlin Wall Built

    Berlin Wall Built

    Berlin wall was built by east Germany to stop people from migrating to the west.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    When the USSR placed nukes in Cuba.
  • Domino Theory

    South Vietnam falls to communism so will other countries
  • Vietnamization

    Vietnamization

    a policy to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War
  • Detente

    Detente

    the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union
  • Perestroika

    Perestroika

    a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party
  • Glasnost

    Glasnost

    the Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues
  • Berlin Wall Torn Down

    Berlin Wall Torn Down

    The east was having economic troubles so it let passage between the walls possible, led to complete destruction of wall.

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