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Cold War Timeline

By maleapeters
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    Allied leaders, Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill, all meet up for a meeting and decided on division of Europe
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    Usa provided military and economic aid to countries threatened by Communism
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    US's plan to aid Europe
  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade

    Soviet Union blocked Allies' section to Berlin
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    Plan by Americans to airlift supplies and food to Berlin when Russia blocked Allies forces out of Berlin
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization

    NATO is an alliance that includes United States, France, Canada and many others.
  • Russian Atomic Bomb

    Russian Atomic Bomb

    Russia tested its first atomic bomb
  • Koren War

    Koren War

    War between North Korea and Sounth Korea
  • Arms Race

    Arms Race

    A competion between US and Soviet Union to create the best weapons (Began in 1950s)
  • Stalin's Death

    Stalin's Death

    Died of stroke in Moscow
  • USS Nautilus

    USS Nautilus

    The USS Nautilus was the first nuclear submarine to be launched by the US.
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    North Vietnam trying to overthrow South Vietnam's governement
  • Space Race

    Space Race

    Soviet Union launched the first satellite into space named Sputnik.
  • U-2 incident

    U-2 incident

    During the Cold war, a U-2 plane was shot down.
  • John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy (JFK) was elected president in the US. He was the 35th president of the United States.
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Cuban exiles tried to invade Cuba but failed.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    German Democratic Republic built wall in Berlin to seperate West Berlin from East Germany
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    was an international crisis with Cuban missile sites that the United States and Soviet Union were involved with which caused their to be a nuclear war at any time between them
  • John F. Kennedy assisnated

    John F. Kennedy assisnated

    JFK was assisanted in Dallas, TX at 12:30 as he rode in a car.
  • Nakita Khrushchev comes to power

    Nakita Khrushchev comes to power

    Became General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11

    Apollo 11 was a space vehicle that carried three American astronauts to the moon and back.
  • Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

    Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

    Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan after Soviet went against the Mujahideen
  • Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power

    Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power

    became a Gerneral Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • INF Treaty

    INF Treaty

    Agreement between the Soviet Union and United States
  • Poland Independence

    Poland Independence

    Poland becomes independent and was no longer ruled by the Soviet Union.
  • Hungary Indepedence

    Hungary Indepedence

    Hungary becomes independent from the Soviet Union
  • Berlin Wall demolished

    Berlin Wall demolished

    Berlin Wall is destroyed and East Germany allows West Germany migrate independently
  • Boris Yeltsin

    Boris Yeltsin

    Boris Yeltsin was elected President of Russia after the fall of the USSR
  • German Reunification

    German Reunification

    German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany
  • USSR Breakup

    USSR Breakup

    Soviet flag was lowered and replaced with Russian Tricolor. Russia became a new independent Russian state.