cold war timeline

By josh000

  • VE day

    victory in europre.germany surrenders

  • the us drops a atomic bomb

    on hiroshima (20 kiloton bombs 'little boy' kills 80,000

  • August 9,1945: The United States drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki (22 kiloton 'Fat Man' kills

  • Period: to

    cold war

  • July 1,1946: Operation Crossroads with Test Able was the first public demonstration of America's atomic arsenal

    July 1,1946: Operation Crossroads with Test Able was the first public demonstration of America's atomic arsenal

  • truman doctraine

    truman doctraine

    truman declares active role in greek cilvil war

  • Bay of Pigs invasion

    US invaded cuba
  • nuclear treaty aproved

    nuclear treaty aproved

    create

  • 200,000 to vietnam

  • U.S. Marines sent to Dominican Republic to fight Communism

  • Announcement of dispatching of 200,000 U.S. troops to Vietnam

  • North Korea captured U.S.S. Pueblo

  • Apollo 11 lands on the moon

  • 1974: August : President Nixon resigns

  • April 17,1975 : North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam which falls to Communist forces

  • August,1980: Polish shipyard workers strike Solidarity Union formed. Strike leader Lech Walesa is elected as the head of Solidarity

  • 1983: October : U.S. troops invades and overthrows regime in Grenada

  • October,1986 : President Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe

  • January,1989 : Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan

  • January,1989 : Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan

  • August,1991 : End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends

    August,1991 : End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends

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