Cold War Timeline

By Rosalyn.fulkerson
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    Cold War Events

  • Berlin Blockade/ Airlift

    Berlin Blockade/ Airlift
    1. USSR attempt to cut West Berlin from the allies.
    2. First example of the U.S. using the Truman Doctrine to help fight communism.

  • Korean War

    Korean War
    1. The korean war was a war between South and North Korea. The U.S. was on the south's side, while the Soviet Union and China were on the North's side.
    2. This war helped caused tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union about communism.

  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    1. This was a war between South and North Vietnam, the United States got involved, and fought with France and South Vietnam.
    2. Cuased more conflicts about communism between U.S. and the Soviet Union dueing the Cold War.

  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    1. It was a small sattellite put in space by the Soviet Union during the space race.
    2. Was a wake-up call to the U.S. that they needed to step up their game in the space race.

  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs
    1. It was the U.S. invading Cuba, but the U.S. surrendered in less thn 24 hours because they were extremely outnumbered.
    2. The U.S. starts to go against the policy of containment by trying uncommunize Cuba, rather than not letting it go anywhere else from Cuba.

  • Creation of the Berlin Wall

    Creation of the Berlin Wall
    1. The wall of was built to keep people from Eastern Germany from escaping to the democratic west.
    2. It shows just how bad communism actually was, and why the U.S. wanted to stop the spread of it.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    1. It was a 13 day conflict between the U.S. and The Soviet union about nuclear-armed missiles that were in Cuba just 90 miles from U.S. shores.
    2. It caused fear in Americans that the Soviet Union would try to launch thtese missiles at the U.S.

  • Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

    Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
    1. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in order to take it over and take it into their own communist government.
    2. It shows how the Soviet Union was power driven and it shows why containment was necessary.

  • Gorbachev's Reforms (Perestroika/ Glasnot)

    Gorbachev's Reforms (Perestroika/ Glasnot)
    1. Program led by Gorbachev that swept communist governments in Europe from power.
    2. It was significant because it contributed to the end of the Cold War.

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Fall of the Berlin Wall
    1. The spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced that their relation with the West was going to change.
    2. Significant because it ended the cold war.