Cold war

Cold War Timeline

By camiveach

  • The creation of the "Iron Curtain"

    The creation of the "Iron Curtain"
    "Iron Curtain" is a term used to describe what separated the Warsaw Pact countries from the NATO countries from about 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The Iron Curtain was a physical and also an ideological division that represented the way Europe was viewed after World War II.

  • The Marshall Plan

    The Marshall Plan
    The Marshall Plan was the American program to help Europe where the United States gave support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. The plan was in operation for four years beginning in April 1948. The goals of the United States were to rebuild a war-devastated region, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, and make Europe prosperous again.

  • The Berlin Airlift

    The Berlin Airlift
    Soviets placed a blockade on the allied sector of Berlin to starve the population into Soviet alliance. The blockade was a soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy.

  • Forming of NATO

    Forming of NATO
    In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). It is based on the North Atlantic Treaty

  • Forming of Warsaw Pact

    Forming of Warsaw Pact
    The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance. This was the Warsaw Pact, in 1955.

  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    South Vietnam was an allie of the US and North Vietnam was an allie of the USSR. The US feared if North Vietnam won the war other countries in South Asia would also fall to Communism.

  • The U-2 incident

    The U-2 incident
    The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960. A United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union.

  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs
    The Bay Of Pigs invasion refers to the CIA sponsored American attack of the Cuban government in order to overthrow Fidel Castro. It was a tricky plan to execute because US was not in war with Cuba then.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. Luckily, thanks to the bravery of two men, President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev, war was prevented.

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Fall of the Berlin Wall
    The fall of the Berlin Wall happened nearly as suddenly as its rise. There had been signs that the Communist bloc was weakening, but the East German Communist leaders insisted that East Germany just needed a moderate change rather than a drastic revolution.