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Cold War Timeline

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  • 1962 BCE

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    The Cuban Missile crisis also known as the October crisis of 1962 was a 1-month, 4 days confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union which escalated into an international crisis when American deployments of missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of similar ballistic missiles in Cuban (November 20 1962)
  • 1961 BCE

    Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall
    The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin. Construction of the wall was commenced by the German Democratic Republic, the wall cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany including East Berlin. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls. Demolished on November 9 1989
  • 1960 BCE

    U-2 Incident

    U-2 Incident
    A united States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air defence Force while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory. (May 17 1960)
  • 1955 BCE

    Space Race

    Space Race
    The Space Race was a 20th- century competition between two cold war adversaries, the Soviet Union and the United States of America, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. (July 17 1975)
  • 1948 BCE

    Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, was U.S program providing aid to western Europe following the devastation of World War II. (December 1951)
  • 1947 BCE

    Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    The Truman Doctrine is an American foreign policy that originated with the primary goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the cold war. This announced to congress by President Harry S. Truman, and further developed on Jully 4, 1948.
  • 1917 BCE

    Red Scare

    Red Scare
    The Red Scare is the promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism, anarchism or other leftist ideologies by a society or state. It is often characterized as political propaganda. (1920)
  • 1859 BCE

    Suez Canal

    Suez Canal
    The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the mediterranean sea to the Red sea through the isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia. The Canal is part of the silk road that connect Europe and Asia.