THE COLD WAR

By AitanaGranados

  • World War II ends

    The world is divided in two: Capitalist Bloc and Communist Bloc.
  • Estados unidos utiliza por primera vez una bomba atómica en Japón.

    Estados unidos utiliza por primera vez una bomba atómica en Japón.

    Target is the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb destroys the city and kills tens of thousandThe s of civilians, producing a large fire that causes further destruction to the city.
  • Plan Marshall

    Plan Marshall

    The Marshall Plan was intended to support the reconstruction of Western European countries in order to stop the USSR.

  • Kominform and Otan

    The Kominform (Russian acronym for the Information Office of Communist and Workers' Parties) was an organization for the exchange of information and experience between communist parties.
    NATO is an alliance of European and North American countries. It provides a unique link between these two continents, enabling them to consult and cooperate in the field of defense and security and to conduct multinational crisis management operations together.
  • Chinese civil war

    Chinese civil war

    Communist china wins

  • North Korea invades South Korea

  • Stalin dies

    Stalin dies

  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    The Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, better known as the Warsaw Pact after the city in which it was signed, was a military cooperation agreement signed on May 14, 1955 by the Eastern Bloc countries during the period known as the Cold War.
  • Sputnik 1 and Sputhink 2

    Sputnik 1 and Sputhink 2

    First and second spacecraft placed in orbit around the Earth
    (launched by the Soviet Union).
  • Cuba allies with the USSR

    Cuba allies with the USSR

    Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev took advantage of the situation to propose to Havana the installation in Cuba of the R-12 medium-range ballistic missile as a deterrent against the plans of the U.S. government.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    The wall was built because, for the communist leaders, it was necessary to stop the flow of people fleeing from the eastern side to the capitalist side.
  • Vostok 1

    Vostok 1

    Was the first space rocket of the Vostok Program and the first manned space mission of the Soviet space program.
  • Red phone

    Red phone

    The red telephone is a direct communication link between the Soviet Union and the United States.
  • Apolo 11

    Apolo 11

    Apollo 11 was the fifth manned mission of the U.S. Apollo Program and the first in history to land a human being on the Moon.
  • North Vietnam versus South Vietnam

    North Vietnam versus South Vietnam

  • Afganistan

    Afganistan

    In Afghanistan, part of the country is rising up against the communist government and the United States is supporting it.
  • Period: to

    Radicalization of communist anti-communism

  • Crisis of the Soviet Union and Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Crisis of the Soviet Union and Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • End of the Cold War

    End of the Cold War

    Officially ended the Cold War with a joint declaration by George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev at the Malta Summit.