cold war timeline

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  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombing

    Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombing

    The bombing sent an indirect message to the USSR which demonstrated weapon power.

  • Berlin Airlift

    Sowed the different ideologies within the East and West

  • Truman Doctorine

    Aimed to stop the spread of Communism into America.

  • USSR Weapon Test

    This was the first successful weapon test for the USSR.
  • The Korean War

    The Korean War

    The first proxy war for the USSR and the USA. Both sides had a section of Korea to fight over.

  • Vietnam war

    The Vietnam war was a result of the spread of communism, American containment, and European Imperialism

  • Suez Crisis

    The Suez Crisis was provoked by an American and British decision not to finance Egypt's construction of the Aswan High Dam, as they had promised, in response to Egypt's growing ties with communist Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    These were Russian warheads planted in Cuba, and the closest we have ever come to a nuclear war.
  • Soviet-Afghan War

    Soviet-Afghan War

    A conflict where insurgent groups known collectively as the Mujahideen, as well as smaller Maoist groups, fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Army throughout the 1980s, mostly in the Afghan countryside

  • Collapse of the Soviet Union

    Marked the end of the Cold War.