Cold War Timeline

By bayleemckinley

  • Yalta Conference is held

  • Chinese Civil War resumed by communist and national forces

  • UN withdrawal of foreign soldiers in Korea

  • Communist party takes control over Czechoslovakia

  • NATO is founded

    Founded by Canada, Belgium, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, and others to resist Communist expansion

  • UK recognizes the PRC.

    Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with the UK

  • The Chinese soldiers capture Seoul

  • Greece and Turkey join NATO

  • Joseph Stalin dies

    This sets off a power struggle to succeed him.

  • The Huk revolt in the philippines is defeated

  • Soviet aid to Syria begins

    Syrians will remain allies of the Soviets until the war ends

  • Allies end military occupation in West Germany

  • Communist insurgency begins in South Vietnam

  • Joseph McCarthy dies

  • NASA is formed

  • France successfully tests it's first atomic bomb

  • Soviet Union detonates Tsar Bomba

    the most powerful thermonuclear weapon ever tested

  • End of the Himalayan war

    Started in September 8th, the Chinese attacked India

  • JFK is shot and killed in Dallas

    Conspiracy about whether it was the CIA or communist countries

  • South African border war begins