Cold War timeline

  • United Nations formed

    United Nations formed

    The united nations forming includes powerful countries like US, Britain, and France coming together as friendly nations.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    A US set goal of trying to contain the expanding of the Soviets.
  • Hollywood 10

    Hollywood 10

    10 men appeared into the public and did not ask any questions as to them supporting communism and subversion
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    US money and supplies sent to aid Western Europe after WW2
  • NATO formed

    NATO formed

    Many Western European nations created a peace and tried to protect themselves, by creating a military to revolt the Soviet Union
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    A War between North and South Korea, started with North Korea invaded South Korea. There are still conflict today, as well of a border separating the two.
  • Space Race/Sputnik

    Space Race/Sputnik

    A "race" between the Soviet Union and the US to have the better space activity. Nuclear weapons were very helpful and needed in the War.
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs

    On the coast of Cuba, by the Cuban people who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution
  • Berlin wall goes up

    Berlin wall goes up

    To wall was put up to form isolation, and to stop the smart science people from leaving.
  • U.S. official enters Vietnam War

    U.S. official enters Vietnam War

    The US launches an long term attack campaign on Vietnam. They combat them as well as combat attacked on there coasts.
  • Soviets invade Afghanistan

    Soviets invade Afghanistan

    A long "Gorilla War" between the soviets and the Afghanistan army.
  • Berlin Wall comes down

    Berlin Wall comes down

    The Berlin wall was a significant event to start the fall of communism. Happend as the cold War was coming to a slow.