Cold War Timeline

By rsmooke
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

  • Victory in Europe Day

    Victory in Europe Day

  • Postdam Conference

    Postdam Conference

  • Japanese Surrender

    Japanese Surrender

  • “Iron Curtain” Speech

    “Iron Curtain” Speech

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    The Truman Doctrine establishes that the US would provide help and aid to all democratic countries.
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    Berlin Blockade/Airlift

    The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin
  • Marshal Plan

    Marshal Plan

    The US gave $13 billion to help European countries recover from WWII.
  • Comecon Created

    Comecon Created

  • NATO Established

    NATO Established

    (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) 12 countries agreed to come to aid one other if any of them were attacked.
  • China Becomes Communist

    China Becomes Communist

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    Korean War

    This was a war between North and South Korea. The US fought for South Korea and the Soviet Union as well as China fought for North Korea.
  • KGB Established

    KGB Established

  • Domino Theory

    Domino Theory

    A belief that if one country became communist, the surrounding countries would also become communist in domino effect
  • Vietnam is divided

    Vietnam is divided

  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    A military alliance between the Soviet Union and many Eastern European countries
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    Vietnam War

    A war between North Korea and South Korea, where the US was an allie to South Korea and the Soviet Union was an allie to North Korea.
  • Suez Crisis

    Suez Crisis

  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

    The Soviet Union launched a satellite to orbit the Earth called Sputnik.
  • Fidel Castro Takes Over Cuba

    Fidel Castro Takes Over Cuba

  • First Man in Space

    First Man in Space

    The first man in space was a Russian Soviet named Yuri Gagarin
  • U2 Spy Plane Shot Down

    U2 Spy Plane Shot Down

  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs

    Exiles unsuccessfull attempted to attack and remove Fidel Castro from power.
  • First American in Space

    First American in Space

    Alan Shepard
  • Berlin Wall Built

    Berlin Wall Built

    Because thousands of German fled to the democratic West Berlin, the communists of East Germany built a wall around West Berlin.
  • Nicaraguan Revolution

    Nicaraguan Revolution

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    It was discovered that the Soviet Union and Cuba were in alliance and had missiles located in Cuba, which concerned the US.
  • Gulf of Tonkin Incident/Resolution

    Gulf of Tonkin Incident/Resolution

  • Six-Day War

    Six-Day War

  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive

  • Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon

    Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon

    The Apollo 11 was the first spaceflight to land humans on the moon (Americans)
  • Yom Kippur War

    Yom Kippur War

  • Iranian Hostage Crisis

    Iranian Hostage Crisis

  • Mikhail Gorbachev takes office

    Mikhail Gorbachev takes office

  • Iran-Contra Affair

    Iran-Contra Affair

  • Perestroika

    Perestroika

    A reformation of the Soviet Union's Communist Party's political policy
  • Glasnost

    Glasnost

    The press and public could finally attend court hearings in the Russian Empire
  • Communist Governments in Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria fall

    Communist Governments in Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria fall

  • Tiananmen Square

    Tiananmen Square

  • Poland Becomes Independent

    Poland Becomes Independent

  • Hungary Becomes Independent

    Hungary Becomes Independent

  • Berlin Wall Falls

    Berlin Wall Falls

    The East German government announced that all citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Many people climbed over the wall in celebration.
  • Germany Reunites

    Germany Reunites

  • Warsaw Pact Ends

    Warsaw Pact Ends

  • Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russia

    Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russia

  • USSR Dissolved

    USSR Dissolved