ColdWar Timeline

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  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    was the ww2 meeting of the heads of the government of the United States, UK, and the soviet union.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    was an American foreign policy created to counter soviet geopolitical expansion during the cold war
  • Marshal Plan

    Marshal Plan

    An act to promote world peace, united states gave western Europe over $13 billion to help rebuild western Europe.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    at the end of the second world war Us, British, and soviet military forces divided occupied germeny
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    Began when North Korea invaded South Korea, UN and United states came to aid South Korea.
  • Joseph stalin dies

    Joseph stalin dies

    Joseph Stalin, a soviet dictator died of a stroke in Moscow, Russia.
  • Nakita Khrushchev Comes to Power

    Nakita Khrushchev Comes to Power

    selected as one of five men named to the new office of secretariat of the communist party.
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    was a collective defense treaty among the soviet union and 7 soviet satellite states in central and Eastern Europe.
  • Space Race

    Space Race

    Competition between United States and the Soviet Union for supremacy in space flight capability.
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    war lasted 19 years and 5 months, it occurred in Vietnam, united states were allies with Southern Vietnam, North Vietnam won war.
  • Arms Race

    Arms Race

    A competition between nations for superiority in the development of weapons, especially between the United States and the soviet Union.
  • soviet Dog in space

    soviet Dog in space

    laika was a soviet space dog who became the first animals in space and first animal to orbit the earth.
  • U-2 Incident

    U-2 Incident

    Started when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    Wall that divided berlin into two parts from 1961-1989 constructed by the German democratic Republic.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    13 day confrontation between united states and the soviet union concerning a American ballistic missile.
  • JFK assasination

    JFK assasination

    Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Cuba launched an invasion on The Bay Of Pigs on South Coast of Cuba.
  • Moon Landing(1969)

    Moon Landing(1969)

    Apollo 11 landed on the moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first two humans to step foot on the moon.
  • Soviet Invasion of afghanistan

    Soviet Invasion of afghanistan

    lasted over 9 years, insurgent groups known as the mujahedeen fought the soviet union, soviet union defeated.
  • First american pizza in russia

    First american pizza in russia

    in the late 1980s the first American food truck made its way to Russia where the first American fast food was available In Moscow.
  • INF Treaty

    INF Treaty

    Treaty signed between the United states and Union of soviet socialists on elimination on their intermediate and shorter range missiles.
  • Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power

    Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power

    he was elected president of the soviet union
  • German Reunification

    German Reunification

    process in which German democratic republic joined the federal republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany.
  • U.S.S.R breakup

    U.S.S.R breakup

    Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as President of the soviet union, became an independent state
  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade

    Attempt in 1948 by the soviet union to limit the ability of France. Soviets offered to drop the blockade if the western Allies withdrew.