events of the Cold War- Cold War Timeline - Faith McCorkle

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  • February 4-11 1945- Defeat of Germany and Japan

    February 4-11 1945- Defeat of Germany and Japan

    Yoda Conference meeting of FDR, chuch-hill, Stalin. The big three had big control over by the soviet union and western Europe. The cold war began.

  • Victory In Europe

    Germany surrenders to the red army in berlin. Victory overall in Europe took place of this day, may 8th, 1945.

  • Containment of 1947- Truman declairs active civil war

    Truman docterie declaires the the Greek civil war, active. Between the communist-dominated left-wing resistance organisation, it began. The EAM-ELAS, and loosely-allied anti-communist resistance forces, were also active. It later escalated into a major civil war between the Greek state and the communists.

  • Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory

    n May 1 over Sverdlovsk, referring to the flight as an “aggressive act” by the United States. Occurred on May day.

  • 1950- Truman approves h-bomb development

    Truman wanted to influenced a hydrogen bomb that would improve of defense in its broadest sense. That way it could be a political defensive weapon.

  • January 31,1958 - Explorer I was Launched

    Explorer I was launched. the first U.S. Satellite, to carry sciences instrument's. Launched from Cape Canaveral.

  • march 2, Trumans loyalty plan was started to catch cold war spies

    Truman creates a cold war protection plan to catch cold war docterains. That way they could gain information on capabilities, especially related to atomic weaponry

  • Khrushchev visits United States; The Kitchen Debate

    Debate represented healthy state of U.S. Soviet union. after an agreement was signed between Moscow and the previous year.

  • Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro, january 1959

    Cuba became a first party commonest state due to Fidel Castro. Businesses and industry's were highly nationalized.

  • John F. Kennedy elected President of USA

    Kennedy Ran in the 1960 u.s. presidential election and won. He ran as president form January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963.

  • Cuba openly aligns itself with the Soviet Union and their policies

    Cuba aligns itself with soviet union as the tension of cub ions tension towards socialism began. The missle crisis also occurred at this time, and they needed allies.

  • Berlin boarder is then closed

    He, SED began to seal off the borders around West Berlin, first with barbed wire and a few days later with walls. They hoped the measure would put an end to the mass exodus to berlin.

  • Construction of Berlin wall begins

    Wall was created in berlin to prevent people from escaping to west and east or Berlin. Many east Germans did not want to live in a communist country.

  • Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Ratified.

    Stopped the spread of radioactive nuclear material through atmospheric testing and set the precedent for a new wave of arms control agreements. This overall saved lots of our nuclear powerplants.

  • A- Bombs were developed by China.

    Hoping this would end access with berlin, a-bombs were created to protect china, and access powers.