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Cold War Timeline

  • Presidents in Office

    Presidents in Office

    Harry S. Truman
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    John F. Kennedy
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    Richard Nixon
    Jimmy Carter
    Ronald Reagan
    George H. W. Bush
  • The Yalta Conference

    The Yalta Conference

    Was set to discuss Europe's post war state. They agreed to divide Germany in to 4 parts and sharing it amongst the four countries.
  • End of WWII

    End of WWII

    Japanese Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs to surrender to U.S on the USS Missouri
  • The Creation of the United Nations

    The Creation of the United Nations

    It was established to maintain world peace and security
    The objectives of the UN were to save the world from wars, maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations and achieve international co-operation
  • The Long Telegraph

    The Long Telegraph

    Sends an 8,000-word telegram to the Department of State detailing his views on the Soviet Union, and U.S. policy toward the communist state
  • Iron Curtain

    Iron Curtain

    Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    Provided $12 Billion of econmic stimulus to help rebuild European countries
  • Berlin Blockade/Airlift

    Berlin Blockade/Airlift

    West Berlin was blocked off by the Soviet Union in order to strangle the Allied forces. In order to combat this, the United States began to airlift supplies into the Western-controlled portions of Berlin.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    Designed to support anti-communists and resist the spread of communism
  • The Creation of NATO

    The Creation of NATO

    Protection of nations existing in the North Alantic region apart of the Treaty
  • The Red Scare

    The Red Scare

    Hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. became known as the Red Scare
  • McCarthyism

    McCarthyism

    the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.
  • The Korean War

    The Korean War

    The North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea
  • Duck and Cover

    Duck and Cover

    A civil defense training film that was widely distributed to United States schoolchildren in the 1950s. It advised students on what to do in the event of a nuclear explosion.
  • The Rosenbergs

    The Rosenbergs

    Were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, are executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. Both refused to admit any wrongdoing and proclaimed their innocence right up to the time of their deaths, by the electric chair
  • The Warsaw Pact

    The Warsaw Pact

    The Warsaw fact was a military alliance between all of the communist east European countries. It was designed as a response to NATO. Members were to support each other if attacked.
  • The Suez Canal

    The Suez Canal

    Israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt toward the Suez Canal after Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-70) nationalized the canal in July of that same year, initiating the Suez Crisis.
  • Eisenhower Doctrine

    Eisenhower Doctrine

    Declared the right of the US to help, on request, any nation in the Middle East trying to resist armed Communist aggression
    Sent US troops to Lebanon to fight against their government
  • U-2 Incident

    U-2 Incident

    Confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S.