Truman and the Cold War

By Nicoletaormina

  • Yalta Conference

  • President Roosevelt dies from a stroke

  • Truman informs soviets of US possession of Nuclear weapons

  • Potsdam conference

  • Truman gives permission for first use of a Nuclear weapon on Hiroshima

  • Truman gives permission for use of second Nuclear bomb on Nagasaki

  • Japanese surrender unconditionally to US

  • Gouzenko affair

    Unveils soviet spys, turns perception of USSR from ally to enemy

  • Joseph Stalin Makes acceptance speech

    Declares that Capitalism and imperialism make future wars enevitable

  • Long Telegram

    Kennan writes his interpretation of intentions of the soviet Union

  • Winston Churchill warns of the descent of an iron curtain across Europe

  • Truman announces "Truman Doctrine"

  • US gives 400 million dollars in military aid to Greece and Turkey

    In order to control the spread of communism

  • Announcement of Marshall plan

  • Communist party takes control of Czechoslovakia

  • Marshall plan signed into effect by Truman

    Marshall plan ends up giving a total of 12.4 billion to European countries to stop spread of communism

  • NATO founded

    Members include Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States, in order to resist Communist expansion.

  • USSR successfully tests its first Nuclear weapon

  • Mao Zedong declares peoples republic of China: Communist

  • China and USSR sign pact of mutual defense

  • North Korea invades South Korea

  • Period: to

    Korean War

  • Ethel and Julius Rosenberg convicted of Espionage for passing Nuclear secrets to USSR

  • Truman signs mutual security act

  • Marshall plan ends

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes president

  • Joseph Stalin dies, creates power struggle by succeed him

  • Armistice end fighting in Korean war

  • The Viet Minh defeat the French at Dien Bien Phu.

  • Joseph McCarthy exclaims communists have infiltrated government agencies

  • West Germany joins NATO

  • Warsaw Pact is founded includes East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union.

  • Eisenhower doctrine announced

  • Sputnik satellite launched by USSR

  • Period: to

    Vietnam War

  • NASA formed by the UNited states

  • Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro comes to power, declares nation communist

  • Formation of the Viet Cong communist insurgent movement

  • American pilot Francis Gary Powers is shot down in his U-2 spy plane while flying at high altitude over the Soviet Union

  • Eisenhower severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.

  • John Kennedy becomes president of the United States

  • Berlin wall Constructed

  • USSR resumes testing of Nuclear weapons

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • US sets up hotline with USSR

  • John Kennedy assassinated

  • Lyndon B. Johnson takes over as President of the US

  • Gulf of Tonkin incident

  • Tet offensive begins

  • Richard Nixon becomes president of the United States

  • Neil Armstrong becomes the first man on the moon

  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

  • Paris Peace accord ends American involvement in Vietnam

  • Gerald Ford becomes president of the US after the resignation of Nixon

  • Jimmy Carter Becomes president of the UNited States

  • United States and its allies boycott 1980 Olympics in Moscow