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Taylor Farmer's cold war timeline

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  • House Un-American Activities Committee formed

    House Un-American Activities Committee formed
    The House of Representatives had created the (HUAC) to investigate possible subversive activities by fascists, Nazis, or communists in the U.S.

  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
    Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill met at Yalta in the Black Sea. The purpse was to discuss the postwar in Europe, Asia, and Germany.

  • United Nations formed

    United Nations formed
    The United Nations was formed to keep peace within every nation/country.

  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference
    Stalin, Churchill, and Truman met in Berlin and decided to divide Germany into 4 zones.

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    The Truman Doctrine was to give aid and food to Greece and Turkey so they can resist communism.

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    The Marshall Plan gave $13 billion in grants and loans to nations in Western Europe to resist communism.

  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    The Berlin Airlift brought food and supplies to people trapped in Berlin after Stalin blockades to city- hoping to starve them into submission. Started June 24th, 1948 to May 12, 1949.

  • NATO formation

    NATO formation
    NATO is a military alliance joining nations of Western Europe and North America.

  • North Korea invades South Korea

    North Korea invades South Korea
    North Korea invades South Korea. U.S was allies with South Korea and China was allies with North Korea.

  • Rosenberg Execution

    Rosenberg Execution
    Ethel and Julius Rosenburg were charged with conspiring to pass secret information about nuclear science to Soviet agents.

  • Armistice Signed Ending Korean War

    Armistice Signed Ending Korean War
    North and South Korea signed the Armistice to end the Korean war.

  • Warsaw Pact formation

    Warsaw Pact formation
    The Warsaw Pact (a rival military alliance) formed by the Soviet Union and its satellites in response to NATO.

  • Sputnik 1 Launched

    Sputnik 1 Launched
    Sputnik 1 was the very first satellite to leave Earth’s atmosphere.

  • First Man in Space

    First Man in Space
    Yuri Gargarin was the very first man in space.

  • First American in Space

    First American in Space
    Alan Shepard was the first American in space.

  • Creation of the Berlin Wall

    Creation of the Berlin Wall
    The Berlin Wall was a dividing wall built by East Germany in 1961 to isolate West Berlin from Communist controlled East Berlin

  • First Man on the Moon

    First Man on the Moon
    Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon.