Major Events during the cold war

By Dylan McCarthy

  • Berlin Airlift

    The end of the blockade in Russia

  • NATO forms

    North Atlatic Treaty Organization

  • Korean War Starts

    The United States joined to stop the spread of communism

  • US H-Bomb

    World's first thermonuclear weapon

  • Warsaw Pact

    Collective defense treaty between Soviet Union and their satellite states

  • Soviets Launch Sputnik

    First Successful Satellite launch into space

  • Berlin wall

    A wall was built to serparate east and west Germany

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    The US was on the brink of civil war and JFK ended it.

  • SALT 1 agreement is signed

    the first strategic arms limitation Talk

  • Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power

    Soviet Union President

  • Major Arms control agreement is rached

    Russia and US meet a nuclear arms agreement

  • Iron Curtain Begins to crumple in Europe

    Europe begins to find peace with each other

  • Soviet Union Collapses

    Russia was no longer communist

  • European Union Established

    Europe is at peace

  • Al Qaeda attacked the United States

    9/11 terrorist attack

  • United States invaded Irag

    Operation Iragi freedom