Early Cold War Timeline

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  • Chinese Civil War (between Jiang Jieshi and Mao Zedong)

    was a civil war in China fought between forces loyal to the Kuomintang led government of the Republic of China, and forces loyal to the Communist Party of China The war began in August 1927, with Chiang Kai-Shek's Northern Expedition, and essentially ended when major active battles ceased in 1950.

  • Berlin Blockade

    one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under allied control.

  • Formation of NATO

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization.is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.

  • Berlin Airlift

    In response, the Western Allies organised the Berlin airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin.

  • National Security Council Report NSC-68

    National Security Council Report 68 (NSC-68) was a 58-paged top secret policy paper issued by the United States National Security Council on April 14, 1950, during the presidency of Harry S. Truman. It was one of the most significant statements of American policy in the Cold War.

  • Korean War

    The Korean War (in South Korea June 25 1950 – 27 July 1953 was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union

  • President Truman fires General MacArthur

    On 11 April 1951, U.S. President Harry S. Truman relieved General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of his commands after MacArthur made public statements which contradicted the administration's policies.

  • Formation of the Warsaw Pact

    The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states.

  • Launching of Sputnik

    History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis The Missile Scare, or the Caribbean Crisis was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba