Cold War Timeline

  • United Nations Formed

    United Nations Organization, is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace.
  • Truman Doctrine

    the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection.
  • Hollywood 10

    Hollywood Ten was a group of 10 film industry members that refused to testify to an anti-communist committee hearing during the Second Red Scare era.
  • Marshall Plan

    proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe.
  • Nato Formed

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states.
  • Korean War

    The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea
  • U.S. Enters Vietnam War

    This happened when the US entered the Vietnam War.
  • Space Race/Sputnik

    the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik-1, the world's first artificial satellite.
  • Bay of Pigs

    was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles, covertly financed and directed by the United States.
  • Berlin Wall Goes Up

    the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin.
  • Soviets Invade Afghanistan

    Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978.
  • Berlin Wall Comes Down

    as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.