Cold War timeline

  • WWII ends in Europe

  • Truman Doctrine anounced

  • Berlin Air LIft begins

  • NATO was established

  • Soviet Union explodes first atomic bomb

  • Communists win Chinese Civil War

  • U.S and U.N nations fight North Korea

  • Korean war ended

  • U.S coup overthrows Iranian government

  • U.S sponsered coup overthrows Iranian government

  • Southeast Asia Treaty Organization is formed

  • Warsaw pact formed

  • Red Army crushes Hugrain Revolution

  • Sovits launch first man made satelite

  • Fidel Castro installs communist power in Cuba

  • East Germany Builds Berlin Wall

  • Cuban missle crisis

  • China explodes first atomic bomb

  • U.S sends troops into Vietnam

  • Soviet Red Army crushes Czech Republic

  • President Nixon visits China

  • South Vietnam falls to Communist forces

  • U.S. and China establish diplomatic relations

  • U.S. invades Grenada.

  • Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union, the following year he declares glasnost and perestroika

  • Led by university students, over one million Chinese in Tiananmen Square demand reforms by the Chinese Communist government

  • Solidarity forms The first post-war non-Communist government in Poland

  • Hungary declares a non-Communist government

  • East Germany allows unrestricted migration to West Germany

  • Berlin Wall is demolished

  • George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev agree to the reunification of Germany

  • The Soviet Union is abolished. Boris Yeltsin becomes President of Russia