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Caitlyn DeMoss Cold War Timeline

By caitlyn.demoss26

  • HUAC

    HUAC
    House Un-American Activities Committee formed.
    To investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizends,public employees and those organizations suspected of having cummunist ties.

  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
    1945 strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill,and Stalin.

  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference
    needs deff!

  • United Nations Formation

    United Nations Formation
    Organization to promote peace

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    President Truman's promise to help nations that are struggling against cummunist movements.

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    Foreign policy that offered economic aid to western European countries after World War ll.

  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    Program in which U.S and British pilots flew suppleis to West Berlinduring a Soviet blockade.

  • NATO formation

    NATO formation
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization
    Military alliance formed to counter Soviet expansion.

  • Era of McCarthyism begins

    Era of McCarthyism begins
    An ecentric period where General McCarthy was deemed hero by the american public and in turn support him in his everything

  • North Korea invasion of South Korea

    North Korea invasion of South Korea
    Armistice agreement was signed July 27 1953
    U.S had over 54,000 dead and 103,000 wounded
    Chinese and Korean were 10 times higher each.

  • 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.

  • Armistice SIgnedd ended Korean War

    Armistice SIgnedd ended Korean War
    A agreement signed by North and South Korea to end the war.

  • Warsaw Pact formation

    Warsaw Pact formation
    Military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite states.

  • Sputnik 1 launching

    Sputnik 1 launching
    Worlds first artficial satellite.
    58 cm 22.8 inches in diameter
    weighed 83.6 kg
    183.9 pounds
    Took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path.

  • First Man in space

    First Man in space
    Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space. He is a Russian cosmonaut. He made a 108 minute orbit in space on the Vostok 1 spacecraft.

  • First american in space

    First american in space
    Alan B. Shepard Jr. was the first american in space. He made a 15 minutes orbit in the Freedom 7 capsule.

  • First man on the moon

    First man on the moon
    Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon. He was on the Appollo 11 along with Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins.

  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall
    To create a dividing line throughout west berlin and east berlin, not only granting greater control for the soviets, but also making a seige ever more possible as a battle plan against the east berlin side