Cold War Timeline

Start of Cold War

Mar 31, 1941

After an unlikley alliiance during WW1 views on socialism and capatalism were thrown to the side when hitler invaded the soviet union.

Confrence in Yalta

Mar 31, 1945

Winston Churchill, U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Soviet premier Josef Stalin agreed on a military plan to end the war. Stalin promised to allow free elections in poland.

Potsdam

Mar 31, 1945

Germany, the Soviet Union, and the U.S. of A.. All of them agreed to to reconize each others influence over regions where their respective troops remained at the end of the war.

Soviet Controlled Governments

Mar 31, 1945

Stalin established soviet-controlled governments in eastern european countries. Occupied by the Red army Including Poland. United States objected to the totalitarian governments.

Germany

Apr 2, 1945

In 1945 Germany was placed under military rule and divide into two zones brawl be reflected the position of the occupying armies the Soviets were stationed in the East.

Atomic Bobm

Jul 16, 1945

On July 16, 1945 the United States successfully tested the world's first atomic bomb United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of hiroshima and Nagasaki killing thousands of people ending the war with Japan

Iron Curtain

Apr 2, 1946

1946 Winston Churchhill delivered his fame is Iron Curtain speech he stated and Iron Curtain has to send it across the European continent behind that line lieall the capitals of the ancient states and Central and Eastern Europe

Truman Doctorine

Mar 12, 1947

March 12, 1947 Pres. Truman made a speech on national television stating United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempt enslavement by armed minorities or communistknown as the Truman doctorine
United States committed itself to containing the spread of Soviet communism Truman asked and received from the US Congress $400 million to provide assistance to Greece and Turkey US successfully did fetid the attention of Communist takeover's

Marshall Plan

Mar 31, 1947

Marshall plan provide 17 million in Aid for economic recovery in Europe. Pay the price of peace or we shall pay the price of war.US excepted Marshall plan to promote world peace and stability European countries agreed to buy American products strengthening the US economy.

Molotov plan

Apr 2, 1947

Soviets perceived the Marshall plan as a cunning attempt to support American capitalism by economically enslaving Europesoviet union develop the economic plan called Molotov plan to support Eastern Europe.

Greese and Turkey

Apr 2, 1947

In the early 1947 the governments of Greece and Turkey were fighting off communist rebellions Great Britain supporting the Greek government ran dry of supplies a pill to the US for help

National Security Council

Apr 2, 1947

In 1947 Pres. Harry S Truman's national Security Council drafted a secret document a blueprints of American policy of the Cold War warn the Soviet military capability was now Sapir to the west and continue to improve at a more rapid rate US had to rapidly increase its atomic capability as a resultThe counselor recommended that Sherman increase US military spending two $50 billion a year which she did within two years

Currency in Germany

Apr 2, 1948

In 1948 France Great Britain and the United States announced plans to introduce a new form of currency in Germany Without telling the soviet union.

NATO

Apr 2, 1949

1949 United States join western nations such as Canada France Great Britain Italy and the Netherlands to form the north Atlantic Treaty organization known as the NATO member nations formed a military alliance to protect each other from Soviet aggression

Monopoly ends

Apr 2, 1949

American monopoly on nuclear weapons ended in 1949 with the Soviets perfected their nuclear technology and developed a nuclear weapon of their own.

Communists in China

Apr 2, 1949

in 1949 Mowel Zedong six restfully led the communist revolution in China mallows communist government quickly allied itself with the Soviet Union both signed mutual defense and economic agreement China had been allies with the United States during World War II's Pacific war against Japan.

Korean war

Apr 2, 1950

In 1950 the Korean War increased American alarm over the spread of communism in Asia Korea was divided at the parallel into two countries North Korea supported the Soviet Union and South Korea'ssupported the United States.

Chechoslovakia

Apr 2, 1950

Union stop a uprising in Czechoslovakia most of the European stayed firmly under Soviet control until the late 1980s

Hydrogen Bomb

Apr 2, 1953

In 1952 the United States successfully tested and even more powerful nuclear device the hydrogen bomb. The Soviet union filed the suit in 1953 both sides now competed in the race to build enough nuclear weapons to defeat the other in each event of war soon armed with enough destructive power to destroy an entire continent and later the world.

Warsaw

Apr 2, 1955

In 1955 the Soviet union for a similar military alliance with eastern European nations such as Czechoslovakia East Germany hungry Poland and Romania known as Warsaw Treaty organization or Warsaw Pact

Freedom from communism

Apr 2, 1956

In 1956 cities began rotating and demanding more freedom from their communist government they threaten to return to a democarcy if their demands were not met leader detached army protesters executed their leaders