Cold War timeline

By Tre.W
  • Russian Revolution

    Russian Revolution

    The lower class of Russia revolted against Tsar Nicholas II, led by Vladimir Lenin they were called the Bolsheviks. This led to the establishment of the soviet union.
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    President Truman, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill met in Potsdam in Germany to discuss fair terms for the end of the war.
  • Atomic Bomb Hiroshima/Nagasaki

    Atomic Bomb Hiroshima/Nagasaki

    President Truman ordered to have the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in hopes of ending the war
  • Iron Curtain

    Iron Curtain

    The iron curtain was a buffer zone between the Soviet Union and Germany
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    This was idea first brought up by President Truman in 1947, it was that we were going to win the war by using money.
  • Hollywood 10

    Hollywood 10

    Hollywood 10 was 10 people that were involved with making films, they were questioned about being communist
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    The Marshall plan was to aid western Europe after the end of WWII, the us put about 110 billion dollars into Europe.
  • Berlin Blockade and Airlift

    Berlin Blockade and Airlift

    The soviet union blockaded everything to Berlin so the US started flying planes in with food and resources
  • NATO

    NATO

    NATO is a alliance with the us and other countries to have protection against the Soviet Union.
  • Soviet Bomb Test

    Soviet Bomb Test

    This was a trial of 5 nuclear bombs tested in 1953
  • Army McCarthy Hearings

    Army McCarthy Hearings

    McCarthy setup televised hearings to investigate the US army
  • Eisenhower's Massive Retaliation Policy

    Eisenhower's Massive Retaliation Policy

    This was a retaliation using military doctrine and nuclear strategy's, this is a full retaliation.
  • Warsaw pact

    Warsaw pact

    The Warsaw pact was a military alliance in eastern Europe in response to NATO
  • Hungarian Revolution

    Hungarian Revolution

    This was a revolt against the communist government that only lasted a couple of months
  • Khrushchev Takes over

    Khrushchev Takes over

    Khrushchev was the leader of the Soviet Union in the peak of the Cold war
  • U2 incident

    U2 incident

    The U2 was a spy plane for the US that was spying on the soviet union and got shot down which led to conflict
  • Bay of Pigs invasion

    Bay of Pigs invasion

    Fidel Castro led a revolt to take over Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista on the south coast of Cuba.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    The Cuban missile crisis was when the US and the Soviet Union were the closest to nuclear warfare.
  • Detente under Nixon

    Detente under Nixon

    During a meeting in washington on 1973 was a cooling point in the cold war
  • The Reagan Doctrine

    The Reagan Doctrine

    This was a strategy used to try and influence the Soviet Union to try and stop the Cold war.
  • Reagan's Berlin wall speech

    Reagan's Berlin wall speech

    In 1987 Ronald Reagan gave a speech where he challenges Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the wall.
  • The fall of the Berlin wall

    The fall of the Berlin wall

    The Berlin wall fell then west and east Germany united again.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    Berlins communist party declared west and east Germany as one again. This happened one year after in 1990