Cold War Timeline

By mason.russ
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    Cold War Events

  • Berlin Blockade / Airlift

    Berlin Blockade / Airlift

    1. USSR attempts to cut W. Berlin
    2. First example of using the Truman Doc to help win the fight against communism.
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    1.Korean War was between North and South Korea.
    2.United states came in to help out South Korea with the battle.
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    1. Aka Indochina War and many other nicknames where made for this war. 2.It was The Cold War pre era, so it was right in The Cold war.
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

    !, Soviet Unions first space cratf to be launched in space
    2. Also one of the first thing to go in to space
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs

    1. It was Castros army that was in cold war
    2. Also known as Latin America
  • Creation of the Berlin Wall

    Creation of the Berlin Wall

    1. Thw wall was made in Eastern Europe.
    2. They build it during the and the middle of the cold war.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    1. Its was a 13 day confrontation between United states and Soviet Union.
    2. The confrontation was about the soviet concerning about ballistc missiles.
  • Soviet invasion of afghanistan

    Soviet invasion of afghanistan

    1. THis war lasted over nine years
    2. The groups received aid from both Christian and Muslim.

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    1. Berlin wall was destory when eastern europe was being attack
    2. Wall completely cut off West Berlin
  • Gorbachev's Reforms (perestroika /Glasost)

    Gorbachev's Reforms (perestroika /Glasost)

    1. Soviet Union reform the democratization of the Communist Party.
    2. Gorbachev gave a speech in Leningrad in which he admitted to slow down the economic