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A timeline of the history of the cold war from 1947 to 1966
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Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War. Truman presented this address before a joint session of Congress. His message, known as the Truman Doctrine, asked Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece -
they offered economic aid by the United States to any European country. The plan was rejected outright by Stalin and any Eastern Bloc country considering accepting aid was reprimanded severely. -
Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia -
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. he USSR attempted to gain control of the entire city by cutting off all surface traffic to West Berlin. -
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 -
. The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. -
, U.S. President Harry S. Truman publicly announces his decision to support the development of the hydrogen bomb -
Seventy-five thousand soldiers from Soviet-aided North Korea invaded Western-aligned South Korea. Two days later, -
Truman fires MacArthur -
the United States tested its first thermonuclear device (hydrogen bomb) on the island of Elugelab in the Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands about 3,000 miles west of Hawaii. -
Joseph Stalin died at the age of 74. He was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev. -
he main security agency for the Soviet Union from 13 March 1954 until 3 December 1991. As a direct successor of preceding agencies -
The Warsaw Pact was formed with member states East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union. -
the Soviet Union and the United States raced to space, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. -
a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. -
The first Mercury-Redstone launch only went about four inches off the ground. From these flights, NASA learned how to fix the rockets and make them safer. -
The United States responded to both Sputnik missions by forming the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958. -
Soviet forces shot down a U.S. spy plane over the Soviet Union and captured its pilot. Peace talks failed when the Soviets proved that the U.S. was conducting espionage; two years later, they exchanged the pilot for a Soviet spy in American custody. -
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. -
a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 as well as encircling and separating West Berlin from East German territory. -
East German authorities closed internal borders in Berlin and began construction of the Berlin Wall. -
After discovering secret Soviet missile bases in Cuba, the U.S. weighed a response that would not lead to nuclear war. The situation eventually de-escalated with the Soviets removing their Cuban missiles in exchange for the U.S. removing their missiles in Turkey. -
John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United states of America is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. -
Two American destroyers reported that they were attacked by North Vietnam, leading the U.S. to increase its military presence in Vietnam. -
Nikita Krushchev removed from office. He was replaced by Leonid Brezhnev. -
Leonid Brezhnev was selected as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet after Khrushchev was removed from power.