Cold War Timeline

By makennagingrich

  • The creation of the "Iron Curtain"

    The Iron Curtain formed the imaginary dividing line that divided Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991

  • The Marshall Plan

    Know as the European Recovery Program, a U.S. program providing economy aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II.

  • The Berlin airlift

    It was when western countries delivered needed food and supplies to the city of Berlin through the air because all other routes were blocked by the Soviet Union.

  • Forming of NATO

    The first peacetime military alliance the United States entered in outside of the Western Hemisphere.

  • Forming of Warsaw Pact

    The Warsaw pact was a political and military alliance between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries.

  • Sputnik

    The Sputnik was when the Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite,

  • Cuban Missile crisis

    The Cuban Missile Crisis was a time of a confrontation between the Soviet Union, the United States, and Cuba

  • Fall of Berlin Wall

    The fall of the Berlin Wall was a pivotal event in world history which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe.

  • Dissolution of the USSR

    The dissolution of the USSR was the process of internal disintegration within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics