Cold War Timeline

By cassmendez

  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies

  • Creation of NATO

    Creation of NATO
    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization by the United States, Canada, and several western European Nations to provide security against the Soviet Union.

  • Creation of Warsaw Pact

    Creation of Warsaw Pact
    was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and 7 Soviet satellite states. Also known as Treaty of Friendship.

  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    first artificial earth satellite

  • Destruction of Berlin Wall

    Destruction of Berlin Wall
    German Communist Party announced the citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased one night they beat it down.

  • Construction of Berlin Wall

    Construction of Berlin Wall
    The Berlin Wall was a symbol of the cold war, was a wall that separated the communist eastern side of Berlin from the democratic Western side.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American Ballistic MIssile

  • Moon Landing

    Moon Landing
    Apollo 11 was the space flight that landed the first two humans on the moon, both were from U.S.