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Berlin Blockade
One of the first major international crisis of the cold war, The soviets union set up blokades on all the railways so the western allias couldent get suplies in or out. -
Berlin Airlift
Suppies were dropped by allied forces to civilians behind enemy lines. -
Formation of NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization intergovenmental millitary based traety orgabization. -
National Security Council Report NSC-68
was a 58-paged top secret policy paper issued by the United States National Security Council on April 14, 1950, during the presidency of Harry S. Truman. It was one of the most significant statements of American policy in the Cold War. -
Korean War
a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. The war arose from the division of Korea at the end of World War II and from the global tensions of the Cold War that developed immediately afterwards. -
Chinese civil war
War bewtween comunist and republican partys. -
President Truman fires General MacArther
On 11 April 1951, U.S. President Harry S. Truman relieved General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of his commands after MacArthur made public statements which contradicted the administration's policies. -
Formation of the warsaw pact
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. -
Luanching of Sputnik
when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball -
Cuban Missle Crisis
was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. It played out on television worldwide and was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.
