Cold War Timeline

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  • Yalta Conference

    Febuary 4th- Febuary 11th
    Location- Russain resort town in the Crimea
    The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down.
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    Cold War TImeline

  • Berlin Airlift

    June 24th- May 11th 1949
    Location- Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany.
    The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949. At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones,

  • NATO Created

    Location- Washington D.C.
    It is often said that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was founded in response to the threat posed by the Soviet Union.
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    Korean War

  • The Geneva Accords

    July 20th- July 21st
    Location- Geneva, Switzerland
    On Indochina, the conference produced a set of documents known as the Geneva Accords. These agreements temporarily separated Vietnam into two zones, a northern zone to be governed by the Việt Minh, and a southern zone to be governed by the State of Vietnam, then headed by former emperor Bảo Đại.

  • Warsaw Pact

    Location Warsaw, Poland
    The Warsaw Pact (formally, the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance, sometimes, informally WarPac, akin in format to NATO) was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
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    Vietnam War

  • Launch of Sputnik

    Location: Soviet Union
    Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit.

  • U-2 Incident

    a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down in Soviet airspace.

  • Bay of Pigs

    April 17th- April 19th 1961
    Location- Cuba
    The Bay of Pigs Invasion, known in Latin America as Invasión de Playa Girón, was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506

  • Berlin Crisis

    June 4th- November 9yh
    Location- Berlin, Germany
    the last major politico-military European incident of the Cold War about the occupational status of the German capital city, Berlin, and of post–World War II Germany.
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    Berlin Wall

    August 13, 1961- November 9, 1989

  • Cuban Missle Crisis

    October 14th- October 18th 1962
    Location- Cuba
    The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, The Missile Scare, or the Caribbean Crisis, was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba.

  • Moscow- Washington Hotline Created

    Location- US and Soviet Union
    In order to prevent this risk in the future, the United States and the Sovjet Union established a direct communication line between their two capitals

  • John F. Kennedy Assasination

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

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Location: US
    Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.

  • The Tet Offensive

    Location- Vietnam
    The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam

  • Apollo 11 Moon Landing

    Location- US
    Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC. Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface six hours later on July 21 at 02:56 UTC.

  • Richard Nixon visits China

    Location- China
    Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China was an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States (U.S.) and the People's Republic of China (PRC).

  • SALT II signed

    Location- Vienna
    The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union—the Cold War superpowers—on the issue of armament control. The two rounds of talks and agreements were SALT I and SALT II.
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    Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

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    Invasion of Grenada

  • Berlin Wall Falls

    Location- Berlin, Germany
    Ecstatic crowds swarmed the wall. Some crossed freely into West Berlin, while others brought hammers and picks and began to chip away at the wall itself. To this day, the Berlin Wall remains one of the most powerful and enduring symbols of the Cold War.

  • Mikhail Gorbachev elected

    Location- Soviet Union
    Gorbachev had worked assiduously to make sure that the Congress gave him the necessary two-thirds majority, including making repeated threats to resign if the majority was not achieved.

  • Soviet Union Collapses

    Location- Soviet Union
    Its collapse was hailed by the west as a victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism.