Cold War Timeline

By emie12714

  • Cold War begins

    There are said to be many different reasons that the Cold War had started. The main one that people say are is the conference between Yalta and Postdam.

  • Japan surrenders during World War II

    The surrender ceremony was held on September 2. Aboard the United States Navy battleship USS Missour. Then officials from the Japanese government signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, thereby ending the hostilities.

  • Nato Pact Signed

    Represenatives from Beligum, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britian, Iceland, Italy, Lexumbourg, Nertherlands, Norway and Portugal joined the united states in signing the Nato agreement. It agreed that an attack agianst one or more of them is an attack aginst them all.

  • Russia tested its first atomic bomb

    This came as a great shock to the United States. They were not expecting the Soviet Union to possess nuclear weapon knowledge so soon. This caused Americans to question their own safety.

  • Truman approved H-bomb development

    The very first hydrogen bomb was created.

  • Berlin border is closed

    This completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin.

  • Salt-2 was never ratified but signed by Jimmy and Brezhnev

    Negotiations began for SALT II and continued for seven years. Finally on June 18, 1979, in Vienna, Brezhnev and President Jimmy Carter signed the Salt-2 I treaty. Salt-2 was sent to the Senate to be ratified, but due to tensions between the two countries, Carter pushed the treaty aside. In the years following, some of the standards set in Salt-2 were being observed by the two sides, but the treaty was never ratified.

  • Salt-1 was signed

    The discussion was going on for two-and-a-half-years but with little progress. Finally they finished it and the US senate approved the agreements by a overwelming vote.

  • The begining of the end of the Cold War

    During 1989 and 1990, the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe.

  • The Cold War ends!

    in the late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. Quickly the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end.