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Early Cold War Timeline

  • Berlin Blockade

    	Berlin Blockade
    It is was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under allied control.
  • Berlin Airlift

    	Berlin Airlift
    the Western Allies organised the Berlin airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin.
  • Formation of NATO

    	Formation of NATO
    Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
  • Formation of the Warsaw Pact

    	Formation of the Warsaw Pact
    the communists expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
  • National Security Council Report NSC-68

    National Security Council Report NSC-68
    It was a 58 page article and it was top secret by the united states National Security Council. It was the most significant statments of the American policy.
  • President Truman fires General MacArthur

    President Truman fires General MacArthur
    He was a popular hero and he was the commander of the of the untied nations force.
  • Korean War

    Korean War
    the United States, the People’s Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea agree to an armistice, bringing the Korean War to an end. The military were calling for defence also.
  • Launching of Sputnik

    	Launching of Sputnik
    The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball (58 cm.or 22.8 inches in diameter), weighed only 83.6 kg. or 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    It played out on television worldwide and was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. And it was their choice to set off the bomb.
  • Chinese Civil War (between Jiang Jieshi and Mao Zedong)

    Chinese Civil War (between Jiang Jieshi and Mao Zedong)
    was a Chinese political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975. He took his sons place as leader.