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.