Cold War Timeline

  • Harry Truman announces Truman Doctrine

    Harry Truman announces Truman Doctrine

    The Truman Doctrine is an American foreign policy that originated with the primary goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
  • General George C. Marshall announces the Marshall Plan.

    General George C. Marshall announces the Marshall Plan.

    the Marshall Plan was to aid in the economic recovery of nations after World War II and secure US geopolitical influence over Western Europe.
  • United Nations adopts a plan for the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab zones.

    United Nations adopts a plan for the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab zones.

    The plan envisages the division of Palestine into 3 parts: a Jewish state, an Arab State , and the City of Jerusalem, to be placed under an International Trusteeship system
  • The start of the Berlin Airlift

    The start of the Berlin Airlift

    In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city.
  • The Soviet Union blockades road and rail traffic between Berlin and the West.

    The Soviet Union blockades road and rail traffic between Berlin and the West.

    when Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. The United States and the United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany.
  • Bernard Baruch speech

    Bernard Baruch speech

    In a speech by Bernard Baruch the term Cold War is used for the first time.
  • NATO formed

    NATO formed

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation formed with member states Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States
  • End of Berlin Blockade

    End of Berlin Blockade

    Russia ended the blockade of Berlin.
  • Hydrogen bomb

    Harry Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb.
  • korean war

    korean war

    The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea.
  • Harry Truman orders US troops to Korea.

    Harry Truman decided to make the order to send our troops to korea.
  • United Nations troops recapture Seoul.

    After Seoul was captured by Chinese and North Korean troops we were able to take it back.
  • General Douglas MacArthur advocates the use of atomic bombs in Korean War.

    General Douglas MacArthur advocates the use of atomic bombs in Korean War. He knew this would help us with an advantage in the war.
  • Julius and Ethel Rosenberg conviction

    Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg found guilty of passing atomic secrets to Soviets.
  • Greece and Turkey join NATO

    Two new countries join NATO which is Greece and Turkey.
  • Britain's atomic bomb

    Winston Churchill announces that Britain has an atom bomb.
  • the Treaty of San Francisco

    the Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect signed by japan which formally ended its period of occupation and isolation, and became a sovereign state.
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes President

    A new president came inro order. Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the 34th President of the United States.
  • Joseph Stalin dies

    The death of joseph Stalin
  • korean war

    The Korean war ended. North Korea remained affiliated with Russia while South Korea was affiliated with the USA.
  • The U.S. launches the world's first nuclear submarine

    The U.S. launches the world's first nuclear submarine which is called the USS Nautilus. The nuclear submarine would become the ultimate nuclear deterrent.
  • The United States tests a hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands.

    The first test for the hydrogen bomb
  • Geneva Accords

    the Geneva Agreements were signed and as part of the agreement, the French agreed to withdraw their troops from northern Vietnam
  • West Germany joins NATO

    Nato expands with west Germany and begins rearmament.
  • Warsaw Pact

    The Warsaw Pact was formed with member states East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union.
  • Official beginning of the Vietnam War.

    The Vietnam War has officially begun.
  • Hungarian Revolution

    A countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and the Hungarian domestic policies imposed by the USSR
  • Dwight Eisenhower wins re-election,

    Dwight D. Eisenhower remains president.
  • President Dwight Eisenhower suspends aid to Israel

    President Dwight Eisenhower suspends aid to Israel in protest at its invasion of Egypt.
  • The Eisenhower Doctrine

    The Eisenhower Doctrine commits the United States to defending Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan from Communist influence.
  • The United Kingdom detonates its first hydrogen bomb.

    Britain's first successful hydrogen bomb was detonated over Christmas Island in the Pacific.
  • space race

    USSR Sputnik II carried Laika the dog, the first living creature to go into space.
  • The U.S. Army launches Explorer 1,

    Explorer 1 is launched by the U.S army which was the first American artificial satellite
  • Nikita Khrushchev becomes prime minister of the soviet union

    Nikita Khrushchev replaces Nikolai Bulganin as prime minister of the Soviet Union.
  • soviet union troops withdraw from berlin

    The Soviet Union demands that all foreign troops should be withdrawn from Berlin.
  • Fidel Castro wins the Cuban war

    Fidel Castro wins the Cuban Revolution and becomes the dictator of Cuba.
  • Paris East/West talks

    Talks between Nikita Khrushchev and Dwight Eisenhower concerning the fate of Germany broke down when a USA U2 spy plane was shot down over Russian airspace.
  • JFk becomes president

    John F . Kennedy becomes the 35th president of the united states
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    A force of Cuban exiles, trained by the CIA, aided by the US government attempted to invade Cuba and overthrow the Communist government of Fidel Castro. The attempt failed.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin wall built and borders sealed between East and West Germany.
  • Mariner 2

    Mariner 2 is launched to make a flyby of Venus.It became the first successful mission to another planet
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba.
  • Sino-Indian War

    it was between China and India and a disputed Himalayan border was the main cause of the war.
  • France withdraws from NATO

    France announces that it is withdrawing its navy from the North Atlantic fleet of NATO.
  • Partial Test Ban Treaty

    prohibited all test detonations of nuclear weapons except for those conducted underground.
  • JFK Assassination

    President John F Kennedy was assassinated while on a visit to Dallas.
  • United States aircraft bomb North Vietnam for the first time.

    The U.S army aircraft attacked North Vietnam using bombs
  • Soviet leader Khrushchev falls from power

    The soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had been taken as his role as leader.
  • China tests its first atomic bomb.

    China tests its first atomic bomb. The test makes China the world's fifth nuclear power.
  • Malcolm X was assassinated

    An African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement was assassinated.
  • Vietnam war

    150,000 US troops sent to Vietnam.
  • Mariner 4

    Mariner 4 was the first spacecraft to fly by Mars, and the first to return close-up images of the Red Planet
  • Luna 9 is launched.

    Luna 9 was launched and became the first spacecraft to achieve a survivable landing on a celestial body.
  • Surveyor 1

    surveyor 1 becomes the first American spacecraft to softly land on another extraterrestrial body.
  • Surveyor 1

    surveyor 1 becomes the first American spacecraft to softly land on another extraterrestrial body.
  • South African Border War begins

    Was a largely asymmetric conflict that occurred in Namibia, Zambia, and Angola