Cold War Timeline

  • Berlin Blockade and Aircraft
    1948 BCE

    Berlin Blockade and Aircraft

    The allied powers decided to unite their different occupation zones of germany into a single economic unit. They organized a similar airlift in the opposite direction of west Berlins greatly reduced industrial exports.
  • Korean war

    Korean war

    The cold war between the soviet union and the united states. Korea had been split into two sovereign states.
  • Space race

    Space race

    The space race refers to the 20th century competition between the two nations that occurred following WW1. The space race has left a legacy of earth communications and weather satellites.
  • Reconnaissance plane

    Reconnaissance plane

    A military aircraft designed or adapted to perform aerial reconnaissance. Their roles include collection of imagery intelligence.
  • Bay of pigs

    Bay of pigs

    they were trained and equipped by the united states central intelligence agency. The location failed attempt by cuban exiles.
  • Reagan visits the wall 1961

    Reagan visits the wall 1961

    A line from speech made by U.S president Ronald reagan in the west Berlin on june 12 1987. To open up the barrier which had divided west and east berlin since 1961.
  • Cuban missel crisis

    Cuban missel crisis

    Confrontation between the united states union concerning american ballistic missile. The confrontation is often considered the closest cold war came to escalating into a full scale nuclear war.
  • Strategic arms

    Strategic arms

    Limitation talks was one of the first steps to slow the arms race. The two rounds of talks and agreements were SALT l and SALT ll.
  • Soviets invade Afghanistan

    Soviets invade Afghanistan

    The US and the soviets each back a different side and this led to the US boycotting in the 1980 olympics. They immediately assumed complete military and political control.
  • Reunited Germany

    Reunited Germany

    This where east and west Germany reunited. East and West Germany was no longer communist and this was evidence that the war saw pacts days were numbered.