Timetoast

  • Policy of Containment

    Policy of Containment

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

  • Berlin Airlift ends blockade of West Berlin

    Berlin Airlift ends blockade of West Berlin

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

  • Comecon

    Comecon

  • NATO formed

    NATO formed

  • Creation of Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)

  • Soviet Union tests their first atomic bomb

    Soviet Union tests their first atomic bomb

  • Period: to

    Korean War

  • Stalin's death

    Stalin's death

  • Johnson escalates troop numbers to start Vietnam War

    Johnson escalates troop numbers to start Vietnam War

  • Dien Bien Phu

  • Soviets launch Sputnik into space

    Soviets launch Sputnik into space

  • Period: to

    Berlin Wall

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • Nixon signs agreement to withdraw from Vietnam

  • Soviet invasion of Afghanistan