Cold War Giuliano Masci

By billybobmasci

  • Karl Marx comes up with the economic system known as Communism

    Karl Marx comes up with the economic system known as Communism
    Karl marx published a book which became a best seller talking about communism.

  • Communists set up a revolution

    Communists set up a revolution
    The goal of the revolution is to overthrow the Romanovs and give mother russia to the people.

  • U.S. worries that the Soviet Union will be a threat

    U.S. worries that the Soviet Union will be a threat
    Starts taking procautions

  • The Soviet Union becomes a communist country

    The Soviet Union becomes a communist country
    This occurs after the fall of nazism in Europe

  • Satelite nations join the Soviet Union

    Satelite nations join the Soviet Union
    Albania, Bulgaria, Czechelslozakia, East Germany, Hangary, Romania, and Poland all join the Russians to create the U.S.S.R.

  • President Truman anounces he will fund countries against communism

    President Truman anounces he will fund countries against communism
    Tension rises beteen U.S. and U.S.S.R.

  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade
    East and west Germany is split by a large blockade now known as the Berlin Wall.

  • Soviet Union cracks down on West Germany

    Soviet Union cracks down on West Germany
    West Germany is closed off by the Soviet Union and people are starving. U.S. and Britan airlift supplies in and finally convince the soviets to break down the blockade in 1949

  • Soviets start testing nulcear weapons

    Soviets start testing nulcear weapons
    starts Cuban missile crisis

  • soviet Union is abolished

    soviet Union is abolished
    the cold war ends