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Yalta Conference
A conference held in Yalta in Feb 1945 where Rooselvet, Stalin and churcill planned the final stages of ww2 and agreed to the territorial division of Europe. -
Truman Doctrine
First expressed in 1947 by us president Truman in a speech to congress seeking aid for greece and turkey, the doctrine was seen by the communists as an open declaration of the Cold War. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was the american initative to aid europe, in which the US gave econonmic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of ww2 in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. -
Berlin Airlift
After ww2, the allies partitoned the defeated Germany into a soviet-occupied zone, an american-occupied zone, a British-occupied zone and a french-occupied zone. -
NATO
Deétnente led to many high levels meetings between leaders from both NATO and the Warsaw Pact. During most of the Cold War. -
USSR Atomic Bomb
This is what led to opprosing military alliances, such as NATO and the Warsaw Pact. The Soviet Union shot into an arms race when the Soviet Atomic Bomb exploded. -
Korean War Begins
War came to Korea in 1950-53 as both a civil war on the Korean Peninsula and the first military clash of the cold war between forces of the soviet union and its communist clients. -
Rosenberg Spy Case
A court case involving Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, an American couple who were executed in 1953 as spies for the soviet union. -
Nikita Khrushchev comes to power
His selection was a crucial first step in his rise to power in the soviet union. An advance that culminated in khrushchev being named secetary of the communist party in sept. 1953 and premier in 1958. -
East German Uprising
Started with a strike by East Berlin workers on the 16th of June 1953. It turned into a widespread uprising against the german democratic republic government the next day. -
Korean War End
When the war ended, one of the most potential most dangerous was in world history had ended. -
Warsaw Pact
An organization formed in Warsaw, Poland (1955), comprising Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the U.S.S.R. -
Hungarian Uprising
The defeat of the Hungarian Uprising was one of the darkest moments of the Cold War. At one point it looked like it was on the verge of an amazing triumph. -
U2 Incident
American Spy Gary Powers was shot down flying over Russia. He was eventually far russian spy. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and trained group of cuban refugees lands in cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The Attack was an utter failure. -
Berlin Wall (building)
The Berlin Wall stood as the most tangible symbol of the cold war, a literal "iron curtain" dividing Europe. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
A confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba. It was one of the hottest periods of the Cold War. -
Sputnik
It was a key cold war event at the beginning with the launch of Sputnik, the first artificial Earth satellite, by the Soviet Union on oct, 4, 1957. -
Prague Spring
The Prague Spring ended with a Soviet invasion, the removal of Amexander Dubcok as party leader and an end to reform within Czechoslovakia. -
Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power
US president Ronald Reagan and his reorientation of Soviet strategic aims contributed to the end of the Cold War. -
Berlin Wall (taking down)
The Berlin Wall was a 45km barrier that was built by the german democratic republic completely cutting off East Berliners from fleeing to the west. -
German reunification
A strong force for reunification developed in East and West Germany in 1990. In East Germany, conservative parties supporting reunification won the elections, and the new government and the force of events proceeded to dismantle the state.