Cold War Timeline

By 8RichaMA

  • Iron Curtain Speech

  • Policy of Containment

  • Truman Doctrine

    March 12, 1947

  • Marshall Plan

    April 3, 1948
  • Period: to

    Berlin Airlift

    June 24, 1948 – May 11, 1949

  • NATO formed

    April 4, 1949
  • Period: to

    Korean War

    June 25, 1950 – July 27, 1953

  • US tests the H-Bomb

    November 1, 1952

  • Warsaw Pact formed

    May 14, 1955
  • Period: to

    Vietnam War

    November 1, 1955 – April 30, 1975

  • Launch of Sputnik

    October 4, 1957

  • U-2 Incident

    May 1, 1960

  • Bay of Pigs invasion

    Lasted until April 19th, 1961

  • Berlin Wall built

    August 13, 1961

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    October 14, 1962 – October 28, 1962

  • Non Proliferation Treaty

    1968

  • Germany reunification

    October 3, 1990

  • Soviet Union break-up

    December 26, 1991