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Cold War Timeline

By misharain

  • Atomic bomb

    Atomic bomb
    American scientists successfully test the first atomic bomb in present day New Mexico.

  • Marshall plan

    Marshall plan
    the Marshall plan was introduced and began to makes its arrangements

  • Berlin blockade

    Berlin blockade
    U.S. and Britain fly airlift to break Soviet blockade of Berlin

  • Truman election

    Truman election
    American voters reelect Democrat Harry Truman to serve another term as president. The unpopular Truman's narrow victory over Republican Thomas Dewey comes as a major upset.

  • NATO

    NATO
    Ten Western European nations join the United States and Canada to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), an anti-Soviet military alliance that extends the deterrent threat of America's nuclear weapons to cover Western Europe.

  • NATO Forms Military Command

    NATO Forms Military Command
    NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) forms a joint military command, choosing American General Dwight Eisenhower as Supreme Commander. NATO's ground forces grow from 30 divisions in 1950 to nearly 60 in 1953.

  • U.S. Ends Japanese Occupation

    U.S. Ends Japanese Occupation
    Nearly seven years after V-J Day, the United States ends its military occupation of Japan.

  • Stalin Dies

    Stalin Dies
    Soviet leader Joseph Stalin dies, ending his 30-year stranglehold on power within the Soviet Union.

  • Open Skies

    Open Skies
    President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin meet in Geneva for the first postwar Soviet-American summit meeting. Eisenhower makes his "Open Skies" proposal to the Soviets, offering to allow each superpower to conduct surveillance flights over the other in order to put to rest both sides' fears of surprise attacks. Bulganin rejects the idea.

  • Cold War ends

    Cold War ends
    August: End of Soviet Union and the Cold War ends. Soviet union is broken down into countries