Cold War Timeline

By KG108
  • WWII ends in Europe

    The war in Europe comes to a end
  • Truman Doctrine announced

    Communists sieze power in Poland in Jan. 1947
  • Berlin airlift begins

  • NATO was established

  • Soviet Union explodes first atomic bomb

  • Communists win Chinese Civil War

  • U.S and other U.N nations fight North Korea

  • Korean War ended

  • U.S coup overthrows Iranian government

  • U.S sponsered coup overthrows Iranian government

  • Southeast Asia Treaty Organization is formed

  • Warsaw pact formed

  • Red Army crushes Hungrain Revolution

  • Sovits launch first man made satelite

  • Fidel Castro installs communist powr in cuba

  • East Germany builds Berlin Wall

  • Cuban missle crisis

  • China explodes first atomic bomb

  • U.S sends troops into Vietnam

  • Soviet Red Army crushes Czech Republic

  • President Nixon visits China

  • S.Vietnam falls to communist power

  • U.S and China estabilish diplomatic relations

  • U.S invades Grenada

  • Berlin wall is torn down

  • Soviet Union is abolished