Cold War

By skylerdouek

  • China Becomes Communist

    China Becomes Communist

  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

  • Victory In Europe Day

    Victory In Europe Day

  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

  • Japanese Surrender

    Japanese Surrender

  • "Iron Curtain" Speech

    "Iron Curtain" Speech

  • Truman Doctrine

    The US would assist all democratic nations with military, economic, or political issues or if being threatened by other authorities.
    This was established by President Harry S. Truman.

  • Marshal Plan

    President Truman signed the Economic Recovry Act which became known as the Marshal Plan.
    It was the American initiative to assist Europe. The US gave $120 billion to help rebuild European econimies after the end of WWll.
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    Berlin Blockade/Airlift

    Could be called the first battle of the Cold War.
    International Crisis
    Western countries delivered needed food and supplies to the city of Berlin through the air because all the other routes were being blocked by the Soviet Union.

  • Comecon Created

    Comecon Created

  • NATO established

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
    Established by 12 Western nations.
    Provided collected security against the Soviet aggresion.

    Made a promise to defend eachother if any one of them is attacked.
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    Korean War

    War between North Korea and South Korea. The US assisted the South and the Soviet Union and China assisted the North.
    This war began and continues from the Division of Korea.

  • KBG Established

    KBG Established

  • Domino Theory

    Domino Theory
    President Eisenhoward used this term in a press conference to explain if one country in the region falls for communism they will all fall under communism like dominos.
    In his speech he was referring to South East Asia

  • Vietnam is Divided

    Vietnam is Divided

  • Warsaw Pact Ends

    Warsaw Pact Ends

  • Warsaw Pact Established

    Defence treaty during the Cold War.
    Involved the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria.
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    Vietnam War

    South Vietnam-- Not Communest
    North Vietname-- Communiest
    The war was trying to stop the spread of communsim into South Vietnam.

  • Suez Crisis

    Suez Crisis

  • Sputnik

    Sputnik was the first artifical Satellite in Earth.
    It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union. 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere. It had four external radio antennas to transmit radio pulses.

  • Fidel Castro Takes Over Cuba

    Fidel Castro Takes Over Cuba

  • U2 Spy Plane Shot Down

  • First Man In Space

    Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space. He made a 108 minute orbital flight in a vostok 1 space craft.
    Gagarin was a Russian Soviet Pilot and Astronaut.

  • Bay Of Pigs

    A failed military invasion in Cuba.
    US oil refineries told to process Soviet fuel -- US refused

  • First American In SPace (Alan Shepard)

    First American In SPace (Alan Shepard)

  • Berlin Wall Built

    Berlin Wall Built
    A barrior that that divided Berlin. Divided the East and Western Berlin.
    After World War 2.
    Eastern Berlin was controlled by the Soviet Union.
    Western Berlin was controlled by the Allies.

  • Cubin Missile Crisis

    13 day confrontation.
    Between the Unites States and Soviet Union.
    The Soviet Union began to place nuclear missilies in Cuba. The United States tefused to allow this to happen. After thirteen days, The Soviet Union agreed to remove the missilies.

  • Gulf of Tonkin Incident

  • Six-Day War

    Six-Day War

  • Tet Offensive

  • Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon

    Spaceflight that landed the first humans on the moon.
    6 hours later, Neil Armstrong became the first person to step onto the lunar surface.

  • Yom Kippur War

  • Nicaraguan Revolution

  • Iranian Hostage Crisis

  • Glasnost

    Assosicated with reforms of judicial systems.
    It made sure that the press and the public would be able to attend the court hearings.

  • Perestroika

    Political Movement for the reformation within Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
    It was involved with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost.
    * does not show an exact date*

  • Iran-Contra Affair

  • Tiananmen Square

  • Poland Becomes Independent

    I do not know the exact date.

  • Hungary Becomes Independent

  • Berlin Wall Falls

    The Berlin Wall was a barrior that divided Berlin,
    It took about three decades until the wall was finally torn down.
    A new government took control when Erich Honecker (East Germanys head of state) had to resign. The new governement decided to prepare a new law to life the travel restrictionsf or East Germany citizens.
    Thousands of East Berliners went to the border crossing and people were demanding to have the border open. It was finally opened.

  • Communist Governments in Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria Fall

  • Mikhail Gorbachev takes Office

  • Germany Reunites

    Germany Reunites

  • Germany Reunites

  • Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russia

  • USSR Dissolved

    USSR Dissolved