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Cold War Timeline

By saramwaqas

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    the U.S. will provide political, military and economic help to all democratic nations under threat from communism

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    the U.S. sent vast amounts of money to 16 nations for rebuilding cities, railroads, factories and electric systems

  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade
    Stalin ordered a blockade of Berlin to try to starve them out

  • NATO

    NATO
    Ten Western countries, the U.S. and Canada fomred the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

  • Korean War

    Korean War
    The first major proxy war

  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact
    An alliance the Soviet Union created with 6 other countries

  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall
    The Soviet Union created the wall to keep people from escaping west Germany

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    The Soviet Union stationed nuclear weapons in Cuba for self defense because the U.S. had nuclear weapons 200 miles away from Russia

  • Mikhail Gorbachev

    Mikhail Gorbachev
    On March 15, 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as the new leader of the Soviet Union

  • Communism Collapses

    Communism Collapses
    Gorbachev's policies led to the collpase of the Soviet Union