Cold War Timeline

  • Communists Win China

    From 1911 to 1945, China experienced a revolution, a
    struggle against warlords, a civil war between them
    Nationalists led by Chiang Kai-Shek and the
    Communists led by Mao Zedong, and invasion by the
    Japanese.
  • Atomic Bomb

    It was used as a powerful weapon that uses nuclear reaction
  • U.S aid to Greece

    Extension of military and economic plunged in the U.S into deep involement in Greek
  • Truman Doctrine

    American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expanison during the Cold War
  • Berlin Aircraft

    The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies
  • Marshall Plan

    The United States gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economcs after the end of WW2
  • USSR gets atomic bomb

    At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name “First Lightning.” In order to measure the effects of the blast, the Soviet scientists constructed buildings, bridges, and other civilian structures in the vicinity of the bomb.
  • Molotov Plan

    The system created by the Soviet Union in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically allgned to the Solvent Union
  • Korean War

    The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border
    Jun 25, 1950 – Jul 27, 1953
  • Coup in Iran

    The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état, was the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favour of strengthening
  • Coup in Guatemala

    The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état was a covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944–1954
  • Beginning of Troops in Vietnam

    The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
    November 1, 1955 – April 30, 1975
  • Warsaw Pact formed

    Political and miliatary alliance
  • Hungary (Rebellion)

    was a nationwide revolt against the communist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956.
  • Suez Canal Crisis

    The Suez Crisis or the Second Arab–Israeli War also named the Tripartite Aggression and Operation Kadesh or Sinai War, was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France.
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses.
  • Cuba (Missile Crisis)

    The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union
    Oct 16, 1962 – Oct 28, 1962
  • China Explodes Atomic Bomb

    The People’s Republic of China joins the rank of nations with atomic bomb capability, after a successful nuclear test on this day in 1964. China is the fifth member of this exclusive club, joining the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France.
  • End of Troops in Vietnam

    The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
    Nov 1, 1955 – Apr 30, 1975
  • Evil Empire Speech

    The phrase evil empire was first applied to the Soviet Union in 1983 by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who took an aggressive, hard-line stance that favored matching and exceeding the Soviet Union's strategic and global military capabilities
  • Coup in Chile

    The 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a watershed event in both the history of Chile and the Cold War. Following an extended period of social unrest and political tension between the opposition-controlled Congress of Chile and the socialist President Salvador Allende
  • Iran Contra Affair

    The Iran–Contra affair, also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the Iran–Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration
    Aug 20, 1985 – Mar 4, 1987
  • Soviets invade Afghanistan

    The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years, from December 1979 to February 1989. Insurgent groups known collectively as the mujahideen, as well as smaller Maoist groups
    Dec 25, 1979 – Feb 15, 1989
  • Fall of the Berlin wall

    The Berlin Wall: The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.
  • Fall of the USSR

    On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. Earlier in the day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state.
  • War in El Savador

    The Salvadoran Civil War was a conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, a coalition or "umbrella organization" of several left-wing groups.
    1980 – 1992