Cold War Timeline

By Amina Guerra

  • Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombs

    Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombs
    Sent an indirect message to the USSR stating "we have nuclear weapons and will use them."

  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    Cold War victory for the united states.

  • NATO/Warsaw Pact/SEATO

    NATO/Warsaw Pact/SEATO
    Helped to provide protection against the soviet union.

  • Korean War

    Korean War
    It was the first time that the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, had fought a 'proxy war ' in a third country.

  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    The war reunited North and South Vietnam but at a great cost.

  • Sputnik Crisis

    Sputnik Crisis
    It intensified the arms race and raise Cold War tensions.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    The closest we ever came to a nuclear war

  • Perestroika/Glasnost

    Perestroika/Glasnost
    2 soviet policies made by Gorbachev that attempted to make them more like the west. His own people resisted.

  • Tiananmen Square Massacre

    Tiananmen Square Massacre
    Inspired protestors in the USSR, which then led to the collapse of the soviet union.

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Fall of the Berlin Wall
    Symbolic end of the Cold War.