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Cold War Timeline

  • Soviet Bomb Test

    Soviet Bomb Test
    The classified research and development of the Atomic Bomb for nuclear warfare in the Soviet Union
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference
    President Truman and Prime Minister Winston Churchill were aiming to secure political freedom and democratic governments throughout Europe and communism directly opposed these goals. To control defeated Germany, winning war with japan and securing peace for Europe.
  • Atomic Bomb (Hiroshima)

    Atomic Bomb (Hiroshima)
    The US dropped a bomb on Nagasaki, Japan so that they would surrender from WW11
  • Atomic Bomb (Nagasaki)

    Atomic Bomb (Nagasaki)
    The Us Bombed Japan again because they wouldn't surrender after Nagasaki in Unconditional Surrender
  • Molotov Plan

    The Soviet Union vowed to provide aid to countries in Eastern Europe that needed rebuilding that were supportive of Communism and willing to adopt communism
  • Hollywood 10

    Hollywood 10
    Movie Producers, actors, and film makers were put up to defend themselves stating that they werent communists during the red scare and the 10 refused to testify against the allogations of possible communist affiliations and were charged with Contempt of congress
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    The US would unconditionally provide economic, political,and military forces to any country being attacked by Soviet Communism
  • The Berlin Blockade

    The Soviet Union blockaded the western sector of Berlin, not allowing the US, France, and Britain to enter the territory. Blocking all motives of transportation into the sector and building a wall.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    The Marshall Plan was the American plan to aid the rebuilding of Western Europe after the ending of WW11
  • NATO

    NATO
    The North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance, that was formed so that the Us and Europe could protect themselves from a communist attack
  • Berlin Airlift

    Russians blocked East Berlin blocking the allies from transporting goods to the people, so they began to drop supplies to the people from aircrafts
  • Alger Hiss Case

    An American Official who was accused of being a Soviet Spy, and was convicted of purgery in 1950
  • Rosenburg Trail

    Ethel and Julius Rosenburg we accused and found guilty of leaking nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union on how to create a nuclear bomb
  • Korean War

    Korean War
    War between North Korea and South Korea, North Korea communism supported by Soviet union invaded South Korea supported by the United States for a Democracy ending in the spit of the two nations at the 17th and parallel
  • Army-McCarthy hearings

    Hearings held by the US Senate ensuring that senator Joseph McCarthy hadnt covered up any communistic happenings in the Military
  • Battle Of Dien Bien Phu

    Battle Of Dien Bien Phu
    A battle between the French and the Vietminh (Vietnamese Communists) because the french wanted to reclaim Vietnam as a territory and the Vietnamese wanted independence. Vietnamese won due to the French being under prepared
  • Geneva Conference

    The Geneva Conference took place to settle the problems that took place because of the Korean war.
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact
    Soviet Unions pact counteracting NATO, including Poland, and small states that were taken over by the Soviet Union during the cold war, seen as a war threat by the Us and Allies
  • Hungarian Revolution

    Hungaries nationwide revolt against the Soviet Unions communist regime, and withdraw from the Warsaw pact
  • U2 Incident

    U2 Incident
    A United States U2 plane was shot down by the Soviet Union and was labeled as an aggressive act towards the US from the Soviet Union
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall
    A concrete wall seperating East Berlin from West Berlin built by the Soviet Union guarded by the Soviet union, and was destrudted in November 1961 and built in August 1961
  • Bay Of Pigs Invasion

    Bay Of Pigs Invasion
    A Military Invasion at the East Bay of Cuba, from the Us to try and over throw the communist regime ran by Fidel Castro, but the attempt was failed
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    13 day long confrontation between the Us and the Soviet Union, over the soviet Union bringing Nuclear missiles to Cuba increasing the fear of a nuclear missile strike in The US, causing the us to blockade Cuba
  • Assassination of Deim

    The arrest and assassination of Diem a leader of communist vietnam by the CIA
  • Assassination of JFK

    Assassination of JFK
    President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot
  • Tonkin Gulf Resolution

    Allowed the US to take any action nessesary even a war to prevent further aggression, signed by president Johnson
  • Opperation Rolling Thunder

    The sustained dropping of ariel bombs over Vietnam during the Vietnam war dropped by the US
  • Tet Offencive

    a series of surprise attacks by the Vietcong (rebel forces sponsored by North Vietnam) and North Vietnamese forces, on scores of cities, towns, and hamlets throughout South Vietnam
  • Assassination of MLK

    Assassination of MLK
    Martin Luther King JR. was fatally shot in Memphis Tennesse, he was a Civil Rights Leader
  • The Russian Revolution

    Two Parties The Bolcheviks and the Menshoviks were Russian parties. The Bolcheviks a rising communistic party that wanted to make all public buisnesses, property, and personal belongings part of state government. The Menshoviks a Socailist party was overthrown by the Bolcheviks ran by Vladimir Lenin throwing Russia into a state of communism. The people of Russia had no human rights, and were at subject to Arrest without charge, imprisionment without trail, and dissapearance reason.