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Yalta Conference/Cold War Begins
February 4-11: Yalta Conference meeting of U.S. President Frankllin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin - the 'Big Three'. Soviet Union has control of Eastern Europe. The Cold War Begins. -
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The Cold War Timeline
This is a U.S History 10 midterm project based off of the Cold War -
U.S. Bombs Hiroshima and Nagasaki
August 6, 1945: The United States used a massive, atomic weapon against Hiroshima, Japan. This atomic bomb, the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT, flattened the city, killing tens of thousands of civilians. While Japan was still trying to comprehend this devastation three days later, the United States struck again, this time, on Nagasaki. -
Japan Surrenders (End of WW2)
By the summer of 1945, the defeat of Japan was a foregone conclusion. The Japanese navy and air force were destroyed. The Allied naval blockade of Japan and intensive bombing of Japanese cities had left the country and its economy devastated. At the end of June, the Americans captured Okinawa, a Japanese island from which the Allies could launch an invasion of the main Japanese home islands. -
Berlin Blockade Begins
The Berlin blockade was one of the first major crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the USSR blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under allied control. -
NATO Established
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was established on April 4, 1949, This treaty was meant to keep Communism under bay. 12 Nations were included, including the United Kingdom and the United States. -
Berlin Blockade Ends
On May 12, 1949, an early crisis of the Cold War comes to an end when the Soviet Union lifts its 11-month blockade against West Berlin. The blockade had been broken by a massive U.S.-British airlift of vital supplies to West Berlin's two million citizens. -
Russia Tested its First Atomic Bomb
At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name "First Lightning." In order to measure the effects of the blast, the Soviet scientists constructed buildings, bridges, and other civilian structures in the vicinity of the bomb. They also placed animals in cages nearby so that they could test the effects of nuclear radiation on human-like mammals. -
Warsaw Pact Formed
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. The Warsaw Pact, so named because the treaty was signed in Warsaw, included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members. -
Berlin Wall Construction Begins
In an effort to stop refugees attempting to leave East Berlin, the communist government of East Germany begins building the Berlin Wall to divide East and West Berlin. Construction of the wall caused a short-term crisis in U.S.-Soviet bloc relations, and the wall itself came to symbolize the Cold War. -
Berlin Wall Opened and Destroyed (End of the Cold War)
East German officials opened the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, allowing travel from East to West Berlin. The following day, celebrating Germans began to tear the wall down. One of the ugliest and most infamous symbols of the Cold War. Then, the Cold War came to an end later when USSR Collapses
