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Cold War Timeline

  • Russian Communist Revolution

    Russian Communist Revolution
    They turned into a communist country made up of two revolutions do you want to piece, land, democracy and it was the worlds first communist revolution
  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles
    this treaty caused the weakness of Europe and lead them to a economic depression. It also divided Germany into 2 parts, due its vulnerability because of the rise of Hitler.
  • League of Nations

    League of Nations
    International organization to promote world peace and corporation that was created by the Treaty of Versailles is connected to the cold war by keeping world peace
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
    It foreshadowed the cold war. This helped lead to the cold war by giving the soviet union control over eastern europe. This led to the cold war because it made the west feel that the USSR was bent on expanding communism.
  • United Nations

    United Nations
    This replaced the league of Nations. The UN recommended that united nations day should be a public holiday in member states. Nothing got accomplished during the Cold War because the United States in the Soviets could never agree
  • Nuremberg Trials

    Nuremberg Trials
    allies conducted these trials to publish the german leaders for these atrocities and other war crimes.
  • Iron Curtain Speech

    Iron Curtain Speech
    People believe it was the start of the cold war for the division that represented the way Europe was viewed after World War II East connected to the influences from the Soviet Union in the ones on the west were democratic government
  • Baruch plan

    Baruch plan
    proposed by the US government to control international use of atomic weapons. The plan failed to gain acceptance and resulted in a dangerous nuclear arms race between the us and Soviet Union during the cold war.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    This policy enabled Turkey to resist soviet pressure. And also helped greece defeat the soviet backed rebels who wanted to overthrow the government. The doctrine pledged to fight communism.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    Broad program of economic aid offered originally to all european nations. This influences the cold war because its intent was to help europeans but caused more tension between stalin and the united states because stalin saw this as an attempt by the US to penetrate eastern Europe under his control.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    Used during the cold war to resupply west berlin at the time when it was being blocked with a blockade by the soviet union. The US and the british used airplanes to ferry essential supplies to ensure that it would remain a part of east germany.
  • General Assembly

    General Assembly
    gained power to the authorized emergency action on its own if the security council were blocked by a veto.
  • NATO Created

    NATO Created
    Organization with the 12 nation of the purpose of collective defense against aggression NATO were the allies involved in the Cold War
  • Chinese Comunist Revolution

    Chinese Comunist Revolution
    The Chinese revolution was the second part of the Chinese Civil War it was when the communist parties drove to power and now they have allies in the east that are communists.
  • Joseph McCarthy speech

    Joseph McCarthy speech
    McCarthyism is was the speech about communism and the Cold War. It's an anti-communism speech. He started the red scare.
  • Korean war

    Korean war
    Thought in the early 1950s between United Nations supported by the United States in the car meanest Democratic People's Republic of Korea United States and its allies supported democracy in South Korea. This caused tension between the N. and S. Korea which caused other nations to get involved due to Societys supporting communism, and democrats supporting democracy,
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact
    This was the defense treaty among the Soviet union and seven other Soviet satellite states in general Europe. This connected to the cold war because Soviets NATO was a threat this is why Warsaw Pact was made. this kept communism within Europe
  • Sputnik launched

    Sputnik launched
    (1957) The first artificial early satellite launched by the Soviets it started the space race
  • Nuclear deterrent

    Nuclear deterrent
    It's nation during the Cold War built up their nuclear weapons to intimidate the other nation to not use their weapons.
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs
    And unsuccessful invasion of Cuba buy Cuban exiles supported by the US government on April 17, 1961 and armed force of about 1500 Cuban exiles landed in the bay of pigs on the south coast of Cuba this is where the missiles were and where the intent to a brides against Castro
  • Fidel Castro proclaims communist Cuba

    Fidel Castro proclaims communist Cuba
    Cuba was in a good place to live or visit due to Castro being a dictator and Cuba had a reputation going around that they were holding nuclear missiles the United States Concord but they were defeated and this causes anger
  • Build of the Berlin Wall

    Build of the Berlin Wall
    East Germany built the berlin wall to seperate the (communist) east from the (democratic) west. The wall totally encircled west berlin and was thrown up overnight on August 13.Construction of the wall caused a short-term crisis in U.S.-Soviet bloc relations, and the wall itself came to symbolize the Cold War.
  • Cuban missle crisis

    Cuban missle crisis
    13 they can't run Tatian between the United States and Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba it was the most tense moment in the Cold War
  • US sends troops to Vietnam

    US sends troops to Vietnam
    President Johnson sent troops to Vietnam to save the south and north Vietnam United States didn't want to call meanest to spread the Cold War is when we were fighting against communism .
  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11
    The space vehicle that carried three American astronauts to the moon and back in July 1969 it stayed in the lunar orbit which carried two out of the three sickly on to the moon the connection to the Cold War is it stirred tensions between the Soviet Union in America because they're always in a constant battle on who is first (space race)
  • Nonproliferation agreement

    Nonproliferation agreement
    international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapon technology to promote peaceful use of nuclear energy this prevents nuclear weapons being used in the cold war.
  • Kent State Shooting

    Kent State Shooting
    Ohio national guild fired into the crowd of Kent State University demonstrators killing four and wounding nine President Nixon suggested that shootings had a direct impact on national politics beyond the direct impact of the May 4th the shootings have certainly come to symbolize the deep Political and social division that sharply divided the country durring the Vietnam war. Students protested against the war.
  • Fall of Saigon

    Fall of Saigon
    Effectively marked the end of the Vietnam War. People were highly concerned about the rapid advances of the north Vietnamese forces. At the end of the March many Americans were leaving the city though were caused by the spread of communism in Vietnam
  • Deng Xiaoping

    Deng Xiaoping
    Paramount leader of China/revolutionary lead this country through far reaching market economy reforms making a change goes from full communist to democratic
  • Margaret Thatcher

    Margaret Thatcher
    Leader of conservative party. She helped to end the cold war. She had a close relationship with Ronald Reagan (the US president at the time) and supported the anglo american alliance and back Regan more active pursuit of the cold war.
  • Pope John Paul ll

    Pope John Paul ll
    he contributed to the collapse of communism in the eastern and central Europe by making a pilgrimage to poland. Which produced an inspiring spiritual awakening in poland. Tens of missions of poles related “we are the society and the country is ours”
  • Soviets invade Afghanistan

    Soviets invade Afghanistan
    This happened in late December the Soviets intervened in support of the Afghanistan communist government this resulted into the Afghanistan war the cold war phot in directly as did the Soviet invasion Soviets tried to spread more of communism then the Afghanistan tried to stop the spread of the US supports Afghanistan.
  • MAD

    MAD
    mutual assured destruction if both the attacker and the defender use their nuclear weapons it will end in complete annihilation of both. this connects to the Cold War because it assures that if one uses nuclear fire it will be fired right back at them
  • Fall of The Berlin Wall

    Fall of The Berlin Wall
    all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Crowds of East Germans crossed and climbed onto the Wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere. This Marks the end of the Cold War.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall
    The wall was the division between West Berlin and East Germany over 29 years and this was a boundary between communism and democracy during the Cold War
  • Lech walesa

    Lech walesa
    Led the movement that change: from a communist nation into a democratic nation the end of communism led to the end of the Cold War is encouraged other nations to follow in the fight to bring down the iron curtain
  • Start (1/2)

    Start (1/2)
    Start 1- treaty that decreases use of nuclear weapons for the United States Soviets/Russia during the Cold War
    Start-2 reduce missiles to 3800 to 4250 by 2000 and 3500-3500 by 2003
  • Salt (1/2)

    Salt (1/2)
    signed by the United States and the Soviet Union both were intended to limit the use of the nuclear weapons and missile but only salt went into affect during the Cold War