184282094.0

f U.S. History Lesson 9-1: Cold War Timeline

  • Iron Curtain Speech

    Iron Curtain Speech

    It was a speech delivered by former British prime minister Winston Churchill. The speech is about how the British and America should work together to stop the spread and the influence of the Soviet Union and its idea of communism.
  • The Truman Doctrine

    The Truman Doctrine

    The President of the United State at that time, Harry S. Truman announced that America will support democratic countries and its political power with military and economic support in order to spread the democratic idea just like Communism.
  • Molotov Plan

    Molotov Plan

    The Soviet Union was a system that was planned to support european countries economically and ait to help them rebuild these countries after World War 2.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    Just like the Soviet Molotov Plan, the Marshall plan is also a plan that helps European countries, but in the name of the Democratic system.
  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade

    It was a attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the ability The United States, British, and France to travel to their sector of Berlin.
  • The Soviet Union Tests the Bomb

    The Soviet Union Tests the Bomb

    On August 29, 1948, The soviet Union test it's first nuclear bomb, the name of the bomb is called "RDS-1". The Soviet Union tested the bomb at Semipalatinsk test site, at modern day Kazakhstan.
  • NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

    NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

    The western countries which includes, United States, Canada, British, France and other democratic country to form a organization to support each other against the Soviet Union.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    Soviet forces lifted the access to western Berlin. The crisis was a result of competing occupation policies and rising tensions between Western powers and the Soviet Union.
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    It was a plan to provide and put Soviets in Armed forces of the member states to command.
  • Invasion of Hungary, 1956

    Invasion of Hungary, 1956

    In the invasion of Hungary happened because in Hungary there were a revolution that want to stay neutral as a country and asked for support from Western countries, but Western countries do not want to have any risk of provoking the Soviet Union so they refused and the invasion happened, on 1958 the leader of the revolution Nagy was executed for treason.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    Germany split up to two parts because of the cold war of picking sides. The Berlin wall was to prevent the East German citizens from going to West Germany. On November 9, 1989, the East German leader announced that citizens can cross the wall whenever the people please and people break the wall.
  • Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968

    Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968

    On that day, the Soviet Union successfully cracked down on reformist trends in Prague but after it let the Communist party at that place have a very bad reputation.