Cold War Timeline

By ryan234

  • VE Day

    Victory in Europe. Germany surrenders to the Red Army in Berlin

  • Hiroshima

    The United States drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima (20 kiloton bomb 'Little Boy' kills 80,000)

  • Rio Pact

    U.S. meet 19 Latin American countries and created a security zone around the hemisphere

  • Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia

    Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia

  • Korean War begins

    Stalin supports North Korea who invade South Korea equipped with Soviet weapons

  • Egypt took control of Suez Canal

    Suez Crisis began with Israeli attack led by Moshe Dayan against Egyptian forces in the Sinai
    Egypt took control of Suez Canal

  • cuba

    Cuba openly aligns itself with the Soviet Union and their policies.

  • solidarity union

    Polish shipyard workers strike Solidarity Union formed. Strike leader Lech Walesa is elected as the head of Solidarity

  • Mikhail Gorbachev

    Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union initiating a campaign of openness called "glasnost" and restructuring called "perestroika"

  • Berlin Wall demolished

    Berlin Wall is demolished and East Germany allows unrestricted migration to West Germany