Cold War Timeline

  • The United Nations is formed

    The United Nations is formed

    an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    an American foreign policy that pledges American "support for democracies against authoritarian threats." Saying that America should support democracy anywhere in the world
  • The Marshall plan

    President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to bring back the economic basis of Europe after the war
  • NATO is born

    "The North Atlantic Treaty Organization" was created by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.
  • The Korean war

    North Korea invades South Korea thus the Korean war breaks out due to rebellions happening in South Korea
  • Bay of pigs invasion begins

    a failed attack by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push the Cuban leader Fidel Castro out of his position of power and influence
  • Berlin wall goes up

    The berlin wall is finished in the night, and separates sectors of the now spit Europe
  • The United States Joins the Vietnam war

    The United States Joins the Vietnam war

    3,500 United States Marines came ashore at Da Nang as the first wave of U.S. combat troops into South Vietnam, adding to the 25,000 US military members already stationed.
  • Soviet soldiers invade Afghanistan

    The aim of the Soviet operation was to prop up their new, but faltering client state. Insurgent groups known collectively as the Mujahideen fought against the occupying forces of the Soviet Union
  • The Berlin wall falls

    The Berlin wall is deconstructed in Germany during the peaceful revolution and is broken down by activists and protestors