cold war timeline

By lesive2019

  • proxy wars

    wars without direct confrontation, but using other countries to fight the war for them.

  • the korean war

    war took place in Korea, in order to decide wether korea would be communist or capitalist

  • containment in southeast asia

    the U.S. tried to contain communism in Vietnam

  • communism in cuba

    a rebellion led by Fidel Castro took over cuba, Fidel then made cuba communist

  • Cuban missile crisis

    many people thought that atomic war would be declared on the U.S. because of cuba's alliance with the soviet union

  • more troops

    president johnson decides to send more troops to vietnam.

  • kennedy is assasintated

    kennedy is killed, thus starting Johnson's presidencey

  • nixon ends the war

    south vietnam signs a peace treaty with north vietnam and nixon pulls the troops out