Cold war timeline

By kbelese99
  • Atomic Bomb; Potsdam Conference

    Atomic Bomb; Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Potsdam Conference - Truman - Stalin and British divide up Europe
  • Communists

    Communists

    Communist Poland The communists seize power in Poland
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine Truman Doctrine announced.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlit Berlin Airlift begins (ends May 19, 1949)
  • NATO

    NATO

    NATONorth Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established.
  • North Korean Forces

    North Korean Forces

    Korean War U.S. and other U.N. members fight North Korean forces. (the Korean War ends July 27, 1953)
  • Soviets

    Soviets

    Sputnik Soviets launch first man‑made satellite.
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis.

    Cuban Missile Crisis.

    Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • President Nixon

    President Nixon

    President Richard Nixon visits China.
  • South Veitnam

    South Veitnam

    South Vietnam falls to Communist forces.
  • Mikhail Gorbachev

    Mikhail Gorbachev

    Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union, the following year he declares glasnost and perestroika.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall is demolished.
  • Reunification of Gemany

    Reunification of Gemany

    George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev agree to the reunification of Germany in 1994

  • Boris Yeltsin

    The Soviet Union is abolished. Boris Yeltsin becomes President of Russia.