Storybook Cold War

  • Containment, Truman Doctrine, and the Marshall Plan

  • Period: to

    Cold War Span

  • AVA IS 10

  • Berlin Blockade and Berlin airlift

    The Berlin Blockade was like a mini Berlin Wall that lasted for 11 months.
  • NATO created and US work on thermoweapons

  • USSR explodes bomb

  • Korean War

    A war between North Korean, which was supported by both the Soviet Union and communist China, and South Korea, which was supported by the United States and the United Nations. The war occurred between 1950 and 1953 and ended in an armistice and original borders.
  • First H-Bomb Tested by US

  • H-Bomb Tested by Soviets

  • Warsaw Pact

  • Chairman Mao Communist Reign in China

    (1893-1976) Leader of the Communist Party in China that overthrew Jiang Jieshi and the Nationalists. Established China as the People’s Republic of China and ruled from 1949 until 1976.
  • Berlin Wall

  • Cuban Missle Crisis

  • Fall of Soviet Union and Berlin Wall

  • AVA IS 52