Timeline: Cold war Timeline

Jun 26, 1945

United nations

the United Nations Charter, which was adopted and signed on June 26, 1945, is now effective and ready to be enforced.

Sep 2, 1945

When did ww2 end?

World war two was one of the most brutal conflicts in recent history, wreaked havoc for 6 years.

Mar 5, 1946

Churchills iron curtain speech

Churchill adresses the "Iron curtain" that the soviet union created to separate themselves from the rest of the continent.

Mar 12, 1947

Truman doctrine

Truman doctrine was the principle that the US should help to stop the spread of communism.

Jul 24, 1948

Berlin Airlift

U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany.

Apr 4, 1949

NATO

Intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.

Aug 29, 1949

USSR's first atomic bomb test

Greatly aided by its successful Soviet Alsos and the atomic spy ring, the Soviet Union conducted its first weapon test of an implosion-type nuclear device, RDS-1, codename First Lightning, on 29 August 1949, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR. With the success of this test, the Soviet Union became the second nation after the United States to detonate a nuclear device.

May 12, 1950

Chinas first civil war

China fought between forces loyal to the Kuomintang , led government of the Republic of China, and forces loyal to the Communist Party of China

Jun 25, 1950

End of Korean War

USA uses its nuclear arsenal to break the stalemate.

Nov 1, 1952

H-Bomb

After the soviets successfully create an atomic bomb, the usa followed.

Jan 1, 1953

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first Supreme Commander of NATO.

Mar 5, 1953

Stalin's death

Suffered a brain hemorrhage and died at 9:50 p.m. on March 5, 1953.

Oct 4, 1954

Sputnik

The first artificial earth satellite

Feb 19, 1955

SEATO

The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization was an international organization for defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty that was signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines.

Nov 1, 1955

Vietnam War

The North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam.

Nov 14, 1955

Warsaw pact

a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.

Sep 27, 1956

Francis Gary Powers

American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in russian airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.

Jan 5, 1957

Eisenhower Doctrine

Foreign policy pronouncement by President Eisenhower promising military and or economic aid to any middle eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression.

Feb 16, 1959

Fidel castro takes over cuba

Overthrew the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.

Nov 8, 1960

President JFK

JFK won the presidental race against Richard Nixon.

Apr 19, 1961

Bay of pigs

CIA failed invasion of cuba

Aug 13, 1961

Berlin Wall

a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic.

Oct 14, 1961

Cuban Missle crisis

a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba.

Oct 16, 1961

Cuban missle crisis

Conflict between usa and russia. Russia planned to have missiles in cuba.

Nov 22, 1963

JFK assassination

President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.

Nov 22, 1963

LBJ

36th president of the united states after JFK was assassinated. He was the vice president, so naturally he was next in line for the presidency.

Jan 20, 1969

Richard Nixon

37th President of the United States. He was the only U.S. president to resign the office.

Jul 20, 1969

NASA's first moon landing

Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon. they were the first men on the moon.

May 26, 1972

SALT

international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union-the Cold War superpowers-on the issue of armament control.

Aug 9, 1974

Gerald Ford

American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977.

Jan 27, 1977

Jimmy Carter

American politician and author who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. In 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Carter Center.

Dec 25, 1979

Soviets invade afghanistan

The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Insurgent groups fought against the Soviet Army and allied Afghan forces.

Jan 20, 1980

U.S boycott of the summer olympics

if Soviet troops did not withdraw from Afghanistan within one month, the United States would boycott the Moscow Olympics in summer 1980.

Feb 22, 1980

Miracle on ice

the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York.

Jan 20, 1981

Ronald Reagan

an American politician and actor who was 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

Mar 23, 1983

STAR WARS

The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union.

Dec 24, 1985

Gorbachev

he general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 and president of the Soviet Union in 1990–91.

Jan 20, 1989

George H. W. Bush

American politician who was 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 and 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

Feb 15, 1989

Soviets leave Afghanistan

the Soviet Union signed the Geneva Accords with the United States, Pakistan and Afghanistan that created a timetable for withdrawal.

Jun 4, 1989

Tiananmen Square

Student-led popular demonstrations in Beijing which took place in the first half of 1989 and received broad support from city residents, exposing deep splits within China’s political leadership.

Nov 9, 1989

Berlin Wall falls

The East German government announced on 9 November 1989 that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Crowds of East Germans crossed and climbed onto the Wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere.

Jun 12, 1991

Borris Yelsin

Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.

Dec 26, 1991

Collapse of the Soviet Union

due to the great number of radical reforms that Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev had implemented during his six years as the leader of the USSR, the soviet union collapsed and russia was born.

May 10, 2016