Cold War Timeline

By nicole.miller
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    Cold War Events

  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    1. claimed Vietnam as a colony
    2. It was a proxy war
  • Berlin Blockade/Airlift

    Berlin Blockade/Airlift

    1. USSR attempts to cut West Berlin from the alllies. 2.First example of the US using the Truman Doctrine to help fight communism.
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    1. It began when the North Korean communist army crossed the 38th parallel and invaded non- communist South Korea.
    2. It represented an important shift in US Cold War policy.
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

    1. Thhe world's first artificial satellite.
    2. intensified the arms race and raised cold war tensions
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs

    1. invansions in attempts to take over the communist government of Fidel Castro
    2. The failure at Bay of Pigs cost the US dearly.
  • Creation of the Berlin Wall

    Creation of the Berlin Wall

    1. eenclosed West Berlin and seperated families and kept people from their jobs
    2. seperated East and West Berlin
  • Cuban Missle Crisis

    Cuban Missle Crisis

    1. American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba.
    2. one of the few times the rules of the Cold War were nearly forgotten
  • Soviet Invasion of Afgahnistan

    Soviet Invasion of Afgahnistan

    1. Afgahn communist government with anticommunist Muslim guerrillas
    2. the only time the Sovieet Union invaded a country outside the Eastern block
  • Gorbachev's Reforms (Perestroika/Glasnost)

    Gorbachev's Reforms (Perestroika/Glasnost)

    1. political movement for reformation within the Communist Party
    2. ended nuclear rivalry with the US, slowed arms race
  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Fall of the Berlin Wall

    1. communist party announced change in relationship with West Berlin
    2. the Cold War began to die down