Cold war origins Timeline

By Tatiana.ryans

  • Truman becomes President

    Harry S. Truman's tenure as the 33rd president of the United States began on April 12, 1945, when Truman became president on his predecessor's death and ended on January 20, 1953. He had been vice president for only 82 days wh

  • Potsdam Conference

    The Potsdam Conference was held in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to allow the three leading Allies to plan the postwar peace while avoiding the mistakes of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kindom, and the USA.

  • Creation of the United Nations

    The United Nations officially came into existence on 24 October 1945, when the Charter had been ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and by a majority of other signatories. United Nations Day is celebrated on 24 October each year.

  • Establishing containment as a policy

    Containment was a foreign policy strategy followed by the United States during the Cold War. First laid out by George F. Kennan in 1947, the policy stated that communism needed to be contained and isolated, or else it would spread to neighboring countries.

  • The Truman Doctrine

    It was announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947, and further developed on July 4, 1948, when he pledged to contain the communist uprisings in Greece and Turkey. ... More generally, the Truman Doctrine implied American support for other nations thought to be threatened by Soviet communism.

  • The Marshall Plan

    The Marshall Plan was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred over $13 billion in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II

  • Berlin Airlift (Berlin Blockade)

    The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.

  • The NATO Alliance

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 27 European countries, 2 North American countries, and 1 Eurasian country. The organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949.