Cold War Timeline

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  • Second Red Scare

    Second Red Scare

    The Second Red Scare is the fear of communism.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    It was a meeting at the Yalta resort, between the Soviet Union Dictator, Joseph Stalin, US President Franklin Roosevelt, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to finalize the remainder of WWII and forge a post-war settlement.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    It is a pledge to support democracies against authoritarian threats.
  • Creation of NATO

    Creation of NATO

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The purpose for this treaty was to provide security against the Soviet Union.
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    The Korean War was the first confrontation of two nuclear powers, the conflict proved to both sides how difficult using atomic bombs would be.
  • Cuban Revolution

    Cuban Revolution

    Fidel Castro led a military and political attempt to overthrow the Cuban government.
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    The first American troop landed in South Vietnam, South Vietnam was backed by the US while the North of Vietnam was backed by the Soviet Union and China.
  • Space Race

    Space Race

    The Space Race was a competition between two Great Powers, the Soviet Union and the US. The competition consisted of the Soviet Union launching Sputnik and later on the US launched Explorer I.
  • 1960 U-2 Incident

    1960 U-2 Incident

    Francis Gary Powers was piloting the U-2C spy plane over the Soviet Union. He was shot down, while he was 70,000 feet up in the air, with a missile he went down.
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion

    This event was on Cuba's south coast, it was when 1,500 Cuban exiles to invade their homeland.
  • Berlin Crisis

    Berlin Crisis

    It was the last major European political and military incident of the Cold War that concerned the capital city of Germany.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    It was the closest the the US and the Soviet Union came to a nuclear conflict during the Cold War.
  • The Soviet-Afghan

    The Soviet-Afghan

    It was an armed protracted conflict because the Soviet Union controlled democratic Afghan.
  • Chernobyl Disaster

    Chernobyl Disaster

    It was a nuclear incident that killed thirty firemen and operators workers at the site within three months.
  • Fall of Soviet Union

    Fall of Soviet Union

    The Soviet of the Republics formally got dissolved as a Sovereign State and international law subject.