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Cold War Timeline

By anjelaocarrasco

  • Creation of "Iron Curtain"

    Creation of "Iron Curtain"
    Iron Curtain was a name for a separation of Europe. Soviet Union had divided itself from the west and non-soviet-controlled areas.

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    It was so americans could help Western Europe. The united states gave over $13 billion to help rebuild Western European.

  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    There was a crisis was when soviet forces blockaded rail, road and water access to Allied-Controlled areas. The united states and united kingdom had started to airlifting food and fuel to Berlin.

  • Forming North Atlantic Treaty Organization

    Forming North Atlantic Treaty Organization
    The united states and 11 other western nations formed NATO. It was to provide collective security against the soviet union.

  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact
    The nato had a rival alliance which was warsaw pact.It was came to be seen as a militaristic threat.

  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    The vietnamese government and Viet song were fighting to reunite Vietnam. The united states saw it as a wart prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam

  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    The soviet union launched Sputnik I. It was the world first artificial satellite that sized as a beach ball

  • U-2 incident

    U-2 incident
    It was a plane that was shot down by a soviet surface.It was a mission to photograph denied territory deep inside russia

  • Creation of the Berlin Wall

    Creation of the Berlin Wall
    German built a wall that circled west berlin. East germans fled to democratic west which they responded by building the wall that was done in the night.

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Fall of the Berlin Wall
    East berlin communist announced a change in his relationships with the west.They announced that citizens were free to cross country's borders