Cold War timeline

By bmoney28
  • Nagasaki

    Nagasaki

    United States Army Air Force drops atom bomb on Nagasaki.
  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima

    United States Army Air Force drops atom bomb on Hiroshima.

  • U.S military

    U.S. Military establish the government of Syngman Rhee in South Korea.
  • Churchill

    Churchill

    Winston Churchill makes Iron Curtain speech in Fulton, Missouri.

  • Czechoslovakia

    Communist Party wins a majority in the general election in Czechoslovakia.

  • klement Gottwald

    Klement Gottwald becomes prime minister of Czechoslovakia.

  • United Nations

    United Nations General Assembly calls for elections in Korea.

  • Berlin

    The start of the Berlin Airlift.

  • Soviets

    The Soviet Union blockades road and rail traffic between Berlin and the West.

  • Democrats

    Democratic People's Republic established in North Korea.

  • Bernard Baruch

    In a speech by Bernard Baruch the term Cold War is used for the first time.

  • Chinese communist

    Chinese communist forces capture Manchuria.

  • Nanjing

    Communist forces in China capture Nanjing.

  • Monarchist

    Monarchists defeat communists in Civil War in Greece.

  • North Korea

    North Korean forces invade South Korea.