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Cold War Timeline

By Christiah_byrne

  • GI Bill

    GI Bill
    communism containment worldwide

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    recovery from all the damage done from ww2

  • NATO

    Anti soviet, threat of nuclear weapons.

  • Warsaw pact

    communist military alliance.threat posed by the west.

  • Warsaw pact

    communist military alliance.threat posed by the west.

  • Korean War

    started when north Korea invaded south Korea.

  • Brinkmanship

    almost brought a nuclear war.

  • Eisenhower Doctrine

    tension between the Middle East and Western Europe. communism aggression.

  • U-2 Incident

    Eisenhower refused to apologize or be blamed for the plane being shit down.

  • Bay of Pigs

    Failure. tries to overthrow castro

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    installation of nuclear missiles. naval lock around Cuba.. removal of nuclear weapons promising not to invade cuba

  • nuclear test ban treaty

    Kennedy signed 3 moths before assassination. first step to control nuclear weapons