cold war timeline

  • Ho Chi Minh

    He served as Prime Minister of Vietnam from 1945 to 1955, and as President of Vietnam from 1945 until his death in 1969
  • Iron Curtain

    The Iron Curtain was the political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II
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    the Korean war

    the Koreas were fighting because they wanted to reunite the Koreas but they could not agree on a way to
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
  • Kim Il Sung

    Kim Il-sung was a Korean politician and the founder of North Korea,
  • NATO being created

    NATO being created
    the military alliance between 30 member states
  • Mao Zedung

    he was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China
  • Chinese Volunteers join the Korean war

    Chinese Volunteers join the Korean war
    About 3 million Chinese civilian and military personnel served in Korea throughout the war. The People's Volunteer Army used a plain red flag during the war
  • Warsaw Pact creation

    Warsaw Pact creation
    defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe
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    Vietnam War

    The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
  • Sputnik Launch

    the first spaceship to ever be in space
  • Space Race

    America and Russia race to see who got to space first
  • JFK

    US President
  • Operation Rolling Thunder

    Operation Rolling Thunder
    Operation Rolling Thunder was a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States 2nd Air Division, U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
  • Cultural Revolution

    Cultural Revolution
    was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China
  • 1st Man on Moon

    America had the first man on the moon which was Neil Armstrong
  • Nixon

    US President
  • Berlin Wall

    The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin
  • Iranian Revolution

    Iranian Revolution
    they were trying to over through the Pahlavi dynasty
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    Soviet-Afghan War

    The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. It saw extensive fighting between the Soviet Union, and the DRA
  • Reagan

    US President