Cold War Timeline

By jperales099

  • February-August 1945

    February-August 1945
    WWII ends in Europe. United states drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

  • January-March 1947

    January-March 1947
    Communists began to seek power in Poland. The Truman Doctrine was announced.

  • August-October 1949

    August-October 1949
    Soviet Union blows up their first atomic bomb. Communists win Chinese civil war.

  • June-September 1954

    June-September 1954
    United States sponsored coup overthrows Guatemalan government. The South East Asia treaty organization was formed.

  • May-June 1955

    May-June 1955
    The Warsaw Pact was formed. First summit meeting between president Dwight Eisenhower and and Premier Nikita Khrushchev.

  • April-August 1961

    April-August 1961
    Bay of Pigs invade Cuba. East Germany builds the Berlin wall.

  • April-August 1965

    April-August 1965
    United States troops go to Dominican Republic. United States commits combat troops to South Vietnam.

  • February 1972 - September 1973

    February 1972 - September 1973
    President Richard Nixon goes to China. United States coup throws off Chilean government

  • January-December 1979

    January-December 1979
    United States and China establish diplomatic relations. Soviet Red army invades Afghanistan.

  • August-December 1991

    August-December 1991
    Hard line Communists began unsuccessful coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. The Soviet Union was no more and Boris Yeltsin becomes the president of Russia