Cold War Timeline

By Ricky214562

  • HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)

    Committee responsible for rooting out communists in American Government and Society
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    Berlin Blockade

    Soviet attempt to starve west Berlin, led to Berlin Airlift

  • NATO

    Military alliance by western nations to defence against communist

  • Race for H-Bomb

    Nuclear arm race between USA & USSR for their advantages
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    Warsaw Pact

    Military alliance by eastern against western nations
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    Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Cuban exile’s rebellion supported by CIA to overthrow Fidel Castro in April 1961
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    Berlin Wall

    Divide Berlin to west and east to prevent citizen escape to west from east, built by East Germany
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    Cuban Missile Crisis

    Crisis by USSR attempt to deploy nuclear missile in Cuba

  • Election of Reagan

    The turning point of the Cold War to end the Cold War

  • Fall of Berlin Wall

    Removal of wall between East & West, symbol of End of Cold War