Cold war timeline

  • 1946 BCE

    Formation of West Germany

    Formation of West Germany
    When they founded West Germany
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
    This was the meeting on when the US destroyed Germany and they were having a meeting on whether or not they will be able to rebuild they town.
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference
    This is when they decided that they were going to let them rebuild whatever was destroyed.
  • Churchill’s iron curtain speech

    Churchill’s iron curtain speech
    This is when they were talking about the line that they had to keep out things like the europeans.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    He was the man that helped get the expansion on the soviet union during the cold war.
  • The Marshall Plan is announced

    The Marshall Plan is announced
    This was a speech that then was said that there is a program to help rebuild the economies of western europe.
  • Formation of NATO

    Formation of NATO
    The alliance between 29 american and european countries.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    This is when the soviet union had lifted after 11 months which was against west berlin. What had broken the blockade was U.S. British airlifts.
  • Soviet Union (Russia) explodes first atomic bomb

    Soviet Union (Russia)  explodes first atomic bomb
    This is when they first tested the nuclear bomb and the bomb was codenamed joe-1
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact
    This was when there was a treaty between the Soviet union and the eastern european countries.