Vanessa Johnson Cold War Time Line

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  • House Un-American Activities Committee

    House Un-American Activities Committee
    an investigating committee of the United States House of Representatives

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    Policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by comunism or totalitarian idealogy.

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe.

  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    a Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off the land acces to Berlin

  • NATO

    NATO
    a military alliance that was created in order to ensure the safety of Freedon in Europe of memebered nations.

  • Korean War

    Korean War
    A conflict that lasted from 1950 to 1953 between North Korea, aided by China, and South Korea, aided by United Nations forces consisting primarily of U.S. troops.

  • Rosenberg Execution

    Rosenberg Execution
    Found guilty of relaying U.S. military secrets to the Soviets, the Rosenbergs were the first U.S. civilians to be sentenced to death for espionage.

  • Armistic Signed Ending Korean War

    Armistic Signed Ending Korean War
    Korean War ended in an armistice, with neither side able to claim outright victory.

  • Warssaw Pact Information

    Warssaw Pact Information
    The Warsaw Pact was an alliance creating an organised military among central and political ties

  • Sputnik 1 Launched

    Sputnik 1 Launched
    The first artificial satellite to be put into geocentric orbit. Launched by the Soviet Union.

  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    Kennedy sends troops

  • First Man In Space

    First Man In Space
    Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut, became the first human to go into outer space

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion
    An unsuccessful attempt by United States-backed Cuban exiles to overthrow the government of the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

  • The Berlin Wall

    The Berlin Wall
    Built to prevent people from East Berlin from crossing the border to West Berlin

  • Cuban MIssile Crisis

    Cuban MIssile Crisis
    The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba in October 1962, during the Cold War.

  • First Man on The Moon

    First Man on The Moon
    Neil Armstrong was the first person to step foot on the Moon

  • Paris Peace Corps.

    Paris Peace Corps.
    Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam, signed in Paris and entered into force January 17, 1973.

  • First American In Space

    First American In Space
    Alan Shepard became the first American to go into outer space