Cold War Timeline

  • Yalta conference

    The Yalta conference was a meeting of the big three; Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin D Roosevelt. A meeting in which the described the unconditional surrender of Germany and where to go from there. It gave eastern europe to the USSR which would later begin to add fuel to the cold war. It took away Germany's liberalism of choosing how to make up for their actions, instead the big three chose what they had to do.
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    Potsdam conference

    The last of the post WW2 meetings between the big three, they came to agreements on the German economy and what to do with war criminals. This was a slap to the face of Germany and can be seen as an act against their liberalism, because they didn't have and choice in the matter.
  • hiroshima bombing

    Bombed the japanese city of hiroshima, Took their freedom to live.
  • Nagasaki

    Bombing of Japanese city Nagasaki. Took peoples freedom to live.
  • Molotov plan

    Made by the Soviets to counteract the marshall plan, an attempt at funding to rebuild the other countries that belonged to the soviets. It took away the freedom of just not helping them if they needed you.
  • Truman Doctrine

    President Harry S. Truman tried to go against the soviets by bribing other countries with money to make them stay capitalist. He later refined it on July 12, 1948. It was an attempt by the US to gain allies and prove that capitalism is better than the USSR's Communism. There freedoms were not affected but it was a hint that they should stick to capitalism.
  • Brussel's treaty

    agreement signed by Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, creating a collective defense alliance. It led to the formation of NATO and the Western European Union. A goal of the treaty was to show that western European states could cooperate, thus encouraging the United States to play a role in the security of western Europe. This took away the countries freedom to do whatever they wanted, because they had to cooperate.
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    Marshall Plan

    President Truman signed The economy recovery act (Marshall Plan) which stated to give Europe $15 billion dollars as an attempt to fight back against the soviets control of most of eastern Europe. Although it can be argued that Europe was already on it's way to restoration even before the act, it did help economically. It was a sneaky way of trying to force others to stay free and not join communism, but if you're forcing someone to stay free then they are not free.
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    Berlin Blockade

    First major clash between the soviets and the "western world" by trying to limit their access to their sectors of Berlin. So instead Truman was like "nahhhh dog." and sent air drops. but it was an attempt at the westerner's freedom of going into Berlin.
  • NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. The Western Nations Join Forces

    The United States and 11 other western nations form Nato as an attempt to stop the spread of communism. It began to force nations to choose which side they're on. That way NATO took away some nations "true" freedom of doing whatever they want.
  • Soviets create their Nukes

    The soviets get their nuke program, took away others freedoms of attacking them, without a nuclear fall out.
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    Korean war

    The Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This was the first physical conflict of the cold war. This was a battle against communism in Truman's view, and it took away the freedom of just watching and doing nothing, instead they had to get involved an lose lives.
  • Stalin Dies

    Stalin dies, communism begins to fade away with his death, liberalism defeated communism.
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    Warsaw Pact

    The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty creating the warsaw pact. Treaty made sure that if one of the members were attacked, the others would come to defend. It took away the countries freedom to stay neutral.
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    Vietnam War

    A fight against communism, after nationalist in vietnam broke free from japanese control. took away the vietnameses free will to be communist, it was an example of expansionism by trying to spread capitalism.
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    Hungarian Revolution

    The Hungarians tried to free themselves of the soviets. This was an example of non-alignment, and this was an attempt of freeing themselves from oppression or gain their liberalism.
  • NORAD: North American Aerospace Defense Command

    It was an air defense to give warning of incoming missles from the soviets. It restricted soviets freedom of attacking and it would invade into people's privacy.
  • Fidel became king

    Fidel Castro took over Cuba, took away the freedom of others becoming prime minister.
  • Bay of pigs

    April 1961, the CIA launched what its leaders believed would be the definitive strike: a full-scale invasion of Cuba by 1,400 American-trained Cubans who had fled their homes when Castro took over. However, the invasion did not go well: The invaders were badly outnumbered by Castro’s troops, and they surrendered after less than 24 hours of fighting.
    Took away some people's freedom to live and created tensions among nations.
    Source: https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/bay-of-pigs-invasion
  • Creation of the Berlin Wall

    Two days after sealing off free passage between East and West Berlin with barbed wire, East German authorities begin building a wall–the Berlin Wall–to permanently close off access to the West. source:https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/berlin-wall-built
  • End of the cuban missile crisis

    The Cuban Missile crisis comes to a close as Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agrees to remove Russian missiles from Cuba in exchange for a promise from the United States to respect Cuba’s territorial sovereignty. This ended nearly two weeks of anxiety and tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union that came close to provoking a nuclear conflict. Source:https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-cuban-missile-crisis-comes-to-an-end
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    Sovi-Afgani war

    The soviets try to keep control of afghanistan. But instead they called for a Jihad. This is an example of expansionism because the soviets wanted to expand their bubble of influence. and it tried to take away the Afgani's freedom and make them soviet; an attack on their liberalism.
  • Solidarity in poland

    POland began to leave its communistic ways. This was an example of non-alignment because the pole's left the soviets ways, and this was to create liberalism and weakened the soviets hold.
  • Fall of the Berlin wall

    The fall of the berlin wall showed that their view of the west had changes and the citizens could cross the border. This was to give people freedom therefore to create more liberalism, and it was an example alignment to the west.
  • Czechoslovakia revolution

    The Czech try to violentishly kick out the soviets. This was an example of non-alignment, and it was an attempt to gain their liberalism.
  • End of the cold war

    Russia gave up its communism, liberalism won. Cold war is over.... or is it?
  • Nuclear arm treaties

    they were treaties to disarm the nukes. this was Detente, and an example of trying to give freedom to nations, by letting them not live in fear of bombardment; increase liberalism.