Cold War Timeline

By hannahgordon1

  • Yalta Conference

  • Victory in Europe Day

  • Potsdam Conference

  • Japanese Surrender

  • "Iron Curtain" Speech

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman said the the US would provide political, military and economic assistance aid to ay nation that would commit to Democracy.

  • Marshal Plan

    The US gave $13 billion to help rebuild/restablish countries that suffered during WW2.

  • Berlin Blockade/ Airlift

    Jun 24 '48 - May 12 '49. The USSR created a blockade of all rail, road, and water communications between Berlin and the West. This was supposed to inhibit the democratic region of from getting supplies. But instead the Western region sent airplanes to drop all of the necesery supplies.

  • Comecon Created

  • NATO Established

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO. It was the United States, Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Iceland, Canada, and Portugal.

  • China becomes Communist

  • Vietnam is divided

  • Korean War

    June 25, 1950 – July 27, 1953.

  • KBG Established

  • Warsaw Pact Established

    The Warsaw Pact was a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the states under their rule.

  • Suez Crisis

  • Sputnik

    First manmade object that was put in space, (USSR). It collected data from the atmosphere.

  • Fidel Castro Takes Over Cuba

  • U2 Spy Plane Shot Down

  • First Man in Space (Yuri Gagarin)

    He orbited around the world in 89 minutes, he was the first human ever to be launched into space. (USSR)

  • Bay of Pigs

    CIA-financed and trained group of Cuban refugees land in Cuba to try and overthrow Castro, they fail horribly.

  • First American in Space (Alan Shepard)

    He was the first american to travel to space.

  • Nicaraguan Revolution Start

    1961 to 90

  • Berlin Wall Built

    The Berlin Wall is a massive wall that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989, built by East Germany (GDR) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    USSR built missiles sites in Cuba -> US got mad. Demnaded that the sites were taken down. USSR said they would if they took down sites in Turkey.

  • Gulf of Tonkin Incident/ Resolution

  • Domino Theory

    Used to justify the US's intervention in other states affairs.

  • Six-Day War

  • Tet Offensive

  • Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon

    First humans to ever land on the moon. #murica.

  • Yom Kippur War

    Oct 6- 26

  • Vietnam War

    Nov. 1, 1955 - April 30, 1975. War between North and South Vietnamese (Communism vs. Democracy).

  • Iranian Hostage

  • Iran-Contra Affair

  • Glasnost

    Late 1980s. Policy adopted by USSR government creating 'openness' in the government, so that more people can contribute to the political process in the country.

  • Tiananmen Square

  • Perestroika

    Economic and political transparency promoted by Gorbachev. Late 1980a.

  • Communist Governments in Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria fall

  • Berlin Wall Falls

    The Berlin wall falls down break downt the barrier between east and west Berlin.

  • Poland Becomes Independent

  • Hungary Becomes Independent

  • Mikhail Gorbachev

  • Germany Reunite

  • Warsaw Pact Ends

  • Boris Yeltsin President of Russia

  • USSR Dissolved