Timeline: Events of the cold war

Dec 17, 1948

Marshall Plan

• American program to aid Europe where the us gave support to help rebuild Europe after wwii
• Prevented the spread of communism

Dec 17, 1949

Creation of NATO

United States and 11 other Western nations form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Jun 25, 1950

Korean war

• North Korea’s invasion of South Korea brought on a UN “police action”
• Usa was trying to contain north Koreas army

Dec 17, 1959

Vietnam War

nationalists attempting to unify Vietnam under a communists government

Dec 17, 1959

Warsaw Pact

• Mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of eastern Europe

Apr 17, 1961

The Bay of Pigs

• 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the bay of pigs of the south coast of Cuba
• When Castro came to power in Cuba, the us Gov. was worried and didn’t trust him.
• We used ww2 b-26 bombers and painted them to look like Cuban air force planes

Dec 17, 1961

Berlin Wall Goes up

• Built to keep Germanys citizens from crossing the border

Dec 17, 1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Closest the world ever came to a nuclear war
• United States armed forces were very prepared and Soviet commanders in Cuba was prepared to use nuclear weapons to defend themselves if invaded

Dec 17, 1976

Fidel Castro comes to power in Cuba

• first communist state in the Western Hemisphere
• overthrew the Cuban government
• batista fled Cuba because of war, then Castro came to power

Dec 17, 1978

China becomes Communist

• Mao turned on the Nationalists, the communist army took over and the CCP took power
• Mao announced the peoples republic of china and china officially became communists