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Cold War Timeline

  • Poland Gains Independence

    Poland Gains Independence

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    Soviet Union Creates Iron Curtain

  • End of WWII

    End of WWII

  • United Nations Formed

    United Nations Formed

  • Period: to

    Chinese Civil War

  • Trumans Marshal Plan

    Trumans Marshal Plan

  • Period: to

    Berlin Blockade

  • Period: to

    Berlin Airlift

  • Soviets Develop Nuclear Capabilities

    Soviets Develop Nuclear Capabilities

  • NATO

    NATO

  • Period: to

    Korean War

  • Revolts in Poland

    Revolts in Poland

  • Period: to

    WarSaw Pact

  • Revolts in Hungary

    Revolts in Hungary

  • Sputnik is Launched

    Sputnik is Launched

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    Vietnam War

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • Berlin Wall Erected

    Berlin Wall Erected

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Prague Spring

    Prague Spring

  • Brezhnev Doctrine

    Brezhnev Doctrine

  • Period: to

    Salt 1

  • Era of detente nixon/carter and Brezhnev

    Era of detente nixon/carter and Brezhnev

  • Nixon Visits Communist China /PRC replaces ROC

    Nixon Visits Communist China /PRC replaces ROC

  • Gorbachev Institutes

  • Period: to

    Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

  • Fall of Berlin Wall

  • Collapse of soviet union