Event 56999

Cold War Timeline

  • Malta Conference

    Malta Conference
    Description of the event-The U.S. provided $13 billion in aid to European nations to rebuild.The purpose of the conference was to plan the final campaign against the Germans with the Combined Chiefs of Staff. Both leaders agreed on the undesirability of the Red Army advancing into central Europe. The major countries where germany. This impacted the Cold war by when the Conference promised the USSR land gains in Manchuria and northern Japan for assistance in the fight against Japan.
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    Malta Conference

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    The Marshall Plan was when the U.S. and British flew continuous missions delivering food and supplies to West Berlin. 1947 was when the Marshall Plan started. European Countries were more the major countries in the Marshall Plan because it used European aid strategy that would help the European economy recover. This had an impacted on the cold war because it stopped West Germany from going communist, because after the war, they were devastated by the destruction and high reparations.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    On the Truman Doctrine, the U.S. provided $13 billion in aid to European nations to rebuild. This was also how President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology
  • Berlin Blockade and Airlift

    Berlin Blockade and Airlift
    The Berlin Airlift was from June 24 1948 to May 12 1949.The blockade lasted 318 days and was about 11 months. The major countries for the Berlin Blockade and Airlift would have been East and West Germany. The Berlin Blockade and Airlift impact the cold war when Stalin cut off all access to With Berlin and imposed a blockade.
  • Korean War

    Korean War
    Started: June 25, 1950. Ended: July 27, 1953 The Americans, North Koreans, South Koreans and The Soviet Union where the major players in the Korean War,The Korean War was a civil war, similar to the U.S. Civil War, where Koreans fought each other on their own ground. The Korean War was also a part of the Cold War between the United State and Soviet Union. In addition to North and South Korea being involved, other countries joined in supporting the two sides. The Korean War was the first armed.
  • u-2 Incident 1960

    u-2 Incident 1960
    This occured during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States one-man U-2 spy plane was reportedly shot down at high altitude over the airspace of the Soviet Union. The soviet union and the united states were the major countries in this event. The u-2 incident effected the cold war when . US Military took Soviet Defense and capabilities received world wide attention
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs
    Fidel Castro; WAs the leader in Cuba the Bay of Pigs incident is generally considered the most humiliating episode in the presidency of John F. Kennedy, who had approved the invasion. The major countries of the bay of pigs was the United States and Cuba. This affected the cold war because The invaders were badly outnumbered by Castro’s troops, and they surrendered after less than 24 hours of fighting.
  • Berlin War Built

    Berlin War Built
    The Berlin Wall was both the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961 to 1989 and the symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the Cold War.Barrier constructed in 1961 to separate East Berlin from West Berlin and East Germany. The Berlin Wall was constructed out of barbed wire, but as more people were able to cross it freely the wall was reconstructed using concrete blocks. When the Soviet Union put up the wall, there was a crisis.Germans not happy
  • US Lands Man on the Moon 1969

    US Lands Man on the Moon 1969
    American Neil Armstrong has become the first man to walk on the Moon. the man on the moon effected the cold war by when,the Cold War rivalry between the two nations focused on attaining firsts in space exploration the united states was the major country that played in this event.
  • Korean Airlines flight 007 1973

    Korean Airlines flight 007 1973
    Airline gFlight 007 was a scheduled Korean Air Lines airliner that was shot down by a Soviet interceptorhe airline flight was one of the most tense moments of the Cold War, and resulted in an escalation of anti-Soviet sentiment,in the United States