Ernie's Cold War Time Line

  • House Un-American Activites Commitee formed

    House Un-American Activites Commitee formed

    Created to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    The big three agreed that Poland, Bulgaria and Romania would hold free elections.
  • United Nations Formation

    United Nations Formation

    It was a organization that many hoped would succeed where the League of Nations had failed.
  • North Korean invasion of South Korea

    North Korean invasion of South Korea

    Within days, the northerners took overtook the South Korean capital city of Seoul.
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    The Potsdam Conference was held from July 16 to August 2 in Potsdam.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    It was a policy set forth U.S. President Harry S Truman.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    It was the large scale economic program.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    It was where they dropped of supplies and good for Berlin.
  • NATO Formation

    NATO Formation

    It provided the military alliance to counter Soviet expansion.
  • Era of McCarthyism begins

    Era of McCarthyism begins

    Joseph R. McCarthy charged that the state Dept. was filled with agents that were communists.
  • Rosenburg Execution

    Rosenburg Execution

    Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's historic execution in 1953. Found guilty of relaying U.S. military secrets to the Soviets, the Rosenbergs were the first U.S. civilians to be sentenced to death for espionage.
  • Armistice signed ending the Korean War

    Armistice signed ending the Korean War

    It was signed so they would stop fighting.
  • Warsaw Pact Formation

    Warsaw Pact Formation

    The Soviet Union and its satellite states formed a rival military alliance.
  • Sputnik 1 launched

    Sputnik 1 launched

    Russia launched Sputnik, they were in a space race with the United States.
  • First man in space

    First man in space

    Yuri Gagarin was the first man to be in space.
  • First American in space

    First American in space

    Alan B Shepard Jr was the first American to reach space.
  • Creation of the Berlin Wall

    Creation of the Berlin Wall

    The built the Berlin Wall to seperate Berlin from the rest of Germany.
  • First man on moon.

    First man on moon.

    Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon.