Cold War Timeline

  • United Nations Formed

    United Nations Formed
    United Nations was formed. Made to provide security and peace throughout the world.
  • Truman Doctorine

    Truman Doctorine
    Made to provide political, military and economic assistance to all nations under threat from external or internal forces.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    Proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe.
  • NATO Formed

    NATO Formed
    guarantees the freedom and security of its members through political and military means
  • Korean War

    Korean War
    Korea split in half with a communist northern side against a capitalist southern side and they had a civil war. The war ended with a border dividing both sides
  • Hollywood 10

    Hollywood 10
    Hollywood 10 was a group of 10 film industry members that refused to testify to an anti-communist committee hearing during the Second Red Scare era
  • Space Race/Sputnik

    Space Race/Sputnik
    The Soviets and Americans were having a race to see who could send their projects to outer space and/or the moon first, to see who could get there first
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs
    Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba, alongside communist ideas from Soviets.
  • Berlin Wall Goes Up

    Berlin Wall Goes Up
    Germany was split after WW2 and Soviets installed communism on the East as The U.S added capitalism to the West. They put up a wall to divide both sides.
  • U.S Enters Vietnam War

    U.S Enters Vietnam War
    A conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
  • Soviets Invade Afghanistan

    Soviets Invade Afghanistan
    A Soviet-Afghan war where Soviets sought to prop up the country's communist government in its battle with anticommunist Muslim guerrillas
  • Berlin Wall Comes Down

    Berlin Wall Comes Down
    A step to reunify Germany after the cold war dies down and Germany does not need to be split into 2 sides of capitalism and communism