Cold War Timeline

By Dhj1

  • Policy of Containment

  • Truman Doctorine

  • Marshall Plan

  • Comecon

  • NATO Formed

  • Berlin Airlift Ends Blockadeof West Berlin

  • Creation of Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)

  • Soviet Union Tests First Atomic Bomb

  • Period: to

    Korean War

  • Stalin's Death

  • Soviet Launches Sputnik 1 into Space

  • Johnson Escalates Troop Numbers to Start Vietnam War

  • Berlin Wall Erected

  • Cuban Missle Crisis

  • Nixon Signs Agreement to Withdraw from Vietnam

  • Communistis Defeat Nationalists in China

  • Soviet Invasion of Afganistan

  • Berlin Wall Torn Down