Cold war timeline

By kbelese99

  • Atomic Bomb; Potsdam Conference

    Atomic Bomb; Potsdam Conference
    Potsdam Conference The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Potsdam Conference - Truman - Stalin and British divide up Europe

  • Communists

    Communists
    Communist Poland The communists seize power in Poland

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    Truman Doctrine Truman Doctrine announced.

  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    Berlin Airlit Berlin Airlift begins (ends May 19, 1949)

  • NATO

    NATO
    NATONorth Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established.

  • North Korean Forces

    North Korean Forces
    Korean War U.S. and other U.N. members fight North Korean forces. (the Korean War ends July 27, 1953)

  • Soviets

    Soviets
    Sputnik Soviets launch first man‑made satellite.

  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs
    Bay of Pigs Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis.

    Cuban Missile Crisis.
    Cuban Missile Crisis.

  • President Nixon

    President Nixon
    President Richard Nixon visits China.

  • South Veitnam

    South Veitnam
    South Vietnam falls to Communist forces.

  • Mikhail Gorbachev

    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union, the following year he declares glasnost and perestroika.

  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall
    Berlin Wall is demolished.

  • Reunification of Gemany

    Reunification of Gemany
    George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev agree to the reunification of Germany in 1994

  • Boris Yeltsin

    The Soviet Union is abolished. Boris Yeltsin becomes President of Russia.