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Cold War Timeline

By zoehorta

  • Berlin Blockade and Airlift

    Berlin Blockade and Airlift
    This was a turing point in post World War 2 Europe. International crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union, in 1948–49, to force the Western Allied powers (the United States, the United Kingdom, and France) to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin.

  • Korean War

    Korean War
    This is where things really got heated between the Soviets and the US. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War.

  • Space Race

    Space Race
    This is where the US and Soviets had an intense rivalry about space and who can get the farthest first. Soviets started with the lead with Sputnik 1, however when the kept competing it actually brought them together and made the International Space Station.

  • U-2 Reconnaissance Plane

    U-2 Reconnaissance Plane
    This is where the US’s CIA had a plane trying to spy on the Soviets and the Soviets shot it down and this lead to an embarrassing conference between US and Soviets. (Embarrassing for the US)

  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs
    This where the US tried to invade Cuba but failed miserably, this embarrassed the US.

  • Reagan visits the Wall

    Reagan visits the Wall
    This when Reagan visited the Berlin Wall, this showed continued commitment to the people of West Berlin.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    This was the the closest to the US and the Soviets actually fighting. This includes nuclear warfare also.

  • Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

    Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
    This was one of the first steps to slow the arms race. The United States and the Soviet Union began the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) on limiting both ABM defensive systems and strategic nuclear offensive systems.

  • Soviets invade Afghanistan

    Soviets invade Afghanistan
    The US and the Soviets each back a different side and this led to the US boycotting the 1980 Olympics. (it doesnt say the day it happened so it just put "28")

  • Reunited Germany

    Reunited Germany
    This where East and west Germany reunited, East Germany was no longer Communist, and this was evidence that the War Saw Pact’s days were numbered.