The Cold War

By emmathegardenflamingo

  • Berlin Blockcade

    The Soviet Union blocks off access to Germany's canals and railroads so help was unable to reach Germany

  • The Marshall Plan in Action

    President Henry Truman signs the Marshall Plan, granting five billion dollars to aid sixteen European countries

  • Start of the Korean War

    Soviet-controlled North Korea invades the Pro-Western South Korea, and the war begins

  • The Warsaw Pact in Action

    A document that called for military cooperation among the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Rumania and East Germany

  • The Vietnam War Begins

    After an invasion of the Soviet Union in northern Vietnam, the spread of communism sparks a war between the north and south

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    A surprise invasion on the coast of Cuba gone wrong, ending up with the death of 114 American soldiers and 1,100 captured

  • Building of the Berlin Wall

    The Soviet Union begins construction of the Berlin Wall, a large barrier dividing Berlin so that Germans from the west couldn't flee east

  • Start of Cuban Missile Crisis

    The Soviet Union strategically places nuclear weapons in Cuba, which makes the US begin to panic frantically

  • Removal of Missiles from Cuba

    After negotiation between president Kennedy and Soviet leader Krushchev, the Soviet's more than worrisome missiles were removed from Cuba

  • Downfall of the Berlin Wall

    Both communism and the Berlin Wall are offically out of Germany that day