Cold War Timeline

  • Yalta Conferennce

    Yalta Conferennce

    World War 2 meeting of the heads of governments.
  • Arms Race

    Arms Race

    Accumulation of weapons between the US and Soviet Union
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    Solution to the Berlin Blockade
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    Untied States plan to aid Western Europe and the Untied States gave 13$ billion
  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade

    The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin.
  • Space Race

    Space Race

    Race between US and Russia to see who would get to space first
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    North Korea invaded South Korea
  • Joseph Stalin death

    Joseph Stalin death

    Governed the Soviet Union from the Mid- 1920s until his death.
  • nikita khrushchev comes to power

    nikita khrushchev comes to power

    Another new leader coming to power in the USSR
  • KGB established

    KGB established

    Main Security agency for the Soviet Union
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    Vietnams resistance against the Untied States
  • Suez Crisis

    Suez Crisis

    Following military bombardment by Israeli forces, a joint British and French force invaded Egypt to regain control of the Suez Canal which had been nationalised by the Egyptian leader Nasser
  • Sputnik Launched

    Sputnik Launched

    Ussr launched Space craft into space
  • U-2 Incident

    U-2 Incident

    United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace
  • A bomb developed

    A bomb developed

    France developed first A- Bomb
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion

    1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    13 day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba
  • JFK Assassination

    JFK Assassination

    JFK was assassinated while visiting Dallas
  • Apollo 11 lands on moon

    Apollo 11 lands on moon

    First space ship and first men to step on the moon
  • B-52s Bomb North Vietnam

    B-52s Bomb North Vietnam

    US bombs Vietnam
  • Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

    Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

    Insurgent groups known as the mujahideen fought against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
  • mikhail gorbachev comes to power

    mikhail gorbachev comes to power

    New leader of the USSR
  • INF Treaty

    INF Treaty

    Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces, Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union
  • Poland

    Poland

    Poland gains independents
  • Berlin Wall (Start and Completion)

    Berlin Wall (Start and Completion)

    Constructed by the German Democratic Republic, starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989.
  • USSR Breakup

    USSR Breakup

    Soviet Union was dissolved
  • Lithuania

    Lithuania

    Lithuania becomes independent
  • German Re-inification

    German Re-inification

    German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany.
  • SALT Signed

    SALT Signed

    Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty signed between the US and USSR.