-
Iron Curtain descends on Europe
The Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. -
Period: to
The Cold War By Juan Martinez
-
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from 17 July to 2 August 1945. -
Dissolving of the Soviet Union
The Soviet Army is the name given to the main land-based branch of the Soviet Armed Forces between February 1946 until December 1991, though was not taken fully out of service until 25 December 1993. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an international relations policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry Truman in a speech on March 12, 1947, which stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent them from falling into the Soviet sphere. -
Marshall plan
The Marshall Plan was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II. -
Creation of Israel
On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. U.S. President Harry S. Truman recognized the new nation on the same day. -
Berlin Air Lift
was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under allied control. -
Formation of Nato
In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955. -
Korean War
was a war between the Republic of Korea South Korea supported by the United Nations and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea North Korea at one time supported by China and the Soviet Union It was primarily the result of the political division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II. -
Suez Crisis
Suez Crisis was a diplomatic and military confrontation in late 1956 between Egypt on one side, and Britain, France and Israel on the other, with the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations playing major roles in forcing Britain, France and Israel to withdraw. -
Sputnik I
was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was a 58 cm 23 indiameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was visible all around the Earth and its radio pulses were detectable. -
Sputnik 2
was the second spacecraft launched into Earth orbit, on November 3, 1957, and the first to carry a living animal, a dog named Laika. Sputnik 2 was a 4-metre 13 foot high cone-shaped capsule with a base diameter of 2 metres 6.6 feet. It contained several compartments for radio transmitters, a telemetry system, a programming unit, a regeneration and temperature control system for the cabin, and scientific instruments. -
NASA is Formed
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research. -
Vietnam War
In 1961, South Vietnam signed a military and economic aid treaty with the United States leading to the arrival 1961 of U.S. support troops and the formation 1962 of the U.S. Military Assistance Command. -
Bay Of Pings Invasion
was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. A counter-revolutionary military, trained and funded by the United States government's Central Intelligence Agency CIA Brigade 2506 fronted the armed wing of the Democratic Revolutionary Front DRF and intended to overthrow the revolutionary left-wing government of Fidel Castro. -
Berlin wall constructed
The Berlin Wall, first erected August 13, 1961, was built to prevent people from East Berlin from crossing the border to West Berlin and was taken down on November 9, 1989. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The crisis is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict and is also the first documented instance of mutual assured destruction being discussed as a determining factor in a major international arms agreement. -
Kennedy is Assasinated
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time 18:30 on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. -
USS Pueblo Incident
USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is an American ELINT and SIGINT[1] Banner-class technical research ship (Navy intelligence) which was boarded and captured by North Korean forces on 23 January 1968, in what is known as the Pueblo incident or alternatively as the Pueblo crisis or the Pueblo affair. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
The Iran hostage crisis, referred to in Persian ,was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States. -
U.S and Soviet boycottos of the Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was a part of a package of actions initiated by the United States to protest against the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan It preceded the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott carried out by the Soviet Union and other Communist-friendly countries. -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
were student-led popular demonstrations in Beijing which took place in the spring of 1989 and received broad support from city residents, exposing deep splits within China's political leadership. The protests were forcibly suppressed by hardline leaders who ordered the military to enforce martial law in the country's capital
