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The USSR set up Cominform which stood for Communist Information Bureau. This was the Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers’ Parties responsible for the creation of the Eastern bloc. -
This timespan list events that happen during the cold war between 1947-1966
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President Truman promises to help any country that is facing a Communist takeover -
In a speech at Harvard, Sec. of State George C. Marshall outlined what would become known as the Marshall Plan. -
The French, USA and UK partitions of Germany were merged to form West Germany -
Russia’s response to the merger of the French, USA and UK partitions of Berlin was to cut all road and rail links to that sector. Due to this those living in Western Berlin had no access to food supplies and faced starvation. -
Supply of vital necessities to West Berlin by air transport primarily under U.S. auspices, in response to a land and water blockade instituted by the Soviet Union -
Russia ended the blockade of Berlin -
NATO (The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) was formed with member states Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States -
The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb. This came as a huge shock to the United States because they were not expecting the Soviet Union to possess nuclear weapon knowledge as soon as they did -
Truman reveals his orders to the Atomic Energy Commission to develop the hydrogen bomb. -
The Korean war begins when North Korea invaded South Korea. -
Truman orders U.S. air and sea forces to aid South Korean troops in resisting the Communist forces of North Korea, which had invaded South Korea the day before. -
The United States led U.N. forces pushed inland to recapture Seoul. The South Korean capital -
General Douglas MacArthur advocates for the use of atom bombs to be used by United States forces in the Korean War -
HUAC which stood for House Un-American Activities Committee was an investigative committee in the House of Reps. which was meant to look into suspected cases of subversion and disloyalty to U-S government. -
Winston Churchill announces that Britain has atom bomb's and are capable of using them in combat -
On this day Matyas Rakosi officially becomes the prime minister of Hungary -
The world's first hydrogen bomb was exploded by the U-S in the Marshall Islands in the mid-Pacific. -
Stalin dies on this date 1953 after suffering a stroke -
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg became the first native-born Americans to be put to death for espionage by order of a civilian court. This was because they were spying on the United States -
The Korean war ended. North Korea remained affiliated with Russia while South Korea was affiliated with the USA.
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This set of documents ended the French war with the Vietminh and divided Vietnam into North and South states -
The United States tests a hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands to see its effectiveness, efficiency and more -
Eisenhower approves the building of thirty U-2 reconnaissance planes. -
Nikita Khrushchev denounces Soviet Union former leader Joseph Stalin -
The Warsaw Pact was formed with member states East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union. -
Diplomatic relations restored between West Germany and the Soviet Union. -
After Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal, Britain and France began planning an invasion of Egypt, as did Israel. -
Students who gathered at Budapest Technical University to protest the hard-line Stalinist government, adopted a declaration demanding 3 reforms of the Hungarian Government -
This began as a Hungarian protest against Communist rule in Budapest. It quickly gathered momentum and on 24th October Soviet tanks entered Budapest. -
This was a plan that promised military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression -
Launched by the Soviet Union, Sputnik was the world's first artificial satellite -
USSR Sputnik II carried Laika the dog, the first living creature to go into space -
First U.S. satellite named the explorer I is sent into orbit. -
Nikita Khrushchev meets Mao Zedong in China and call for an end of all nuclear testing. -
The Soviet Union demands that all foreign troops should be withdrawn from Berlin. -
Fidel Castro and his victorious troops enter Havana. -
Member states vote again against the admission of China to the United Nations. -
The United Nations decide not to intervene in the independence struggle in Algeria. -
Talks between Nikita Khrushchev and Dwight Eisenhower concerning the fate of Germany broke down when a USA U2 spy plane was shot down over Russian airspace. -
In 1960 the United States ends all aid to Cuba -
East Germany imposes blockade of West Berlin. -
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyvich Gagarin became the first human being in space. -
A force of Cuban exiles, trained by the CIA, aided by the US government attempted to invade Cuba and overthrow the Communist government of Fidel Castro. The attempt failed. -
Berlin wall built and borders sealed between East and West Germany. -
The United States involvement in Vietnam increases more and more as time goes on -
A US spy plane reported sighting the construction of a Soviet nuclear missile base in Cuba. President Kennedy set up a naval blockade and demanded the removal of the missiles. War was averted when the Russians agreed on 28th October to remove the weapons. The United States agreed not to invade Cuba. -
Only event I can find is Missile Crisis
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To lessen the threat of an accidental nuclear war, the United States and the Soviet Union agree to establish a "hot line" communication system between the two nations. -
John F. Kennedy tells the American people along with the world that the Cuban Missile Crisis is over. -
President John F Kennedy is assassinated while campaigning in Texas -
Nikita Krushchev removed from office. He was replaced by Leonid Brezhnev. -
Alexsei Kosygin becomes prime minister of the Soviet Union -
China shows the world their capabilities by exploding their first atomic bomb -
150,000 US troops sent to Vietnam. -
The Soviet Union admits to supplying arms to North Vietnam. -
Ho Chi Minh rejects peace talks on the Vietnam War offered by Lyndon B. Johnson. -
Charles De Gaulle calls for United States forces to leave Vietnam. -
France withdraws its troops from NATO in 1966 -
Harold Wilson criticizes the United States for bombing populated areas in North Vietnam.