Cold War Timeline

By sydnie.sharp
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    Cold War Events

  • Berlin Blockade/Airlift

    Berlin Blockade/Airlift
    1. USSR attempts to cut west Blerin from the allies.
    2. First example of the US using the Truman Doctrine to help fight communism.

  • Korean War

    Korean War
    1. The korean War is often know as hte Forgotten War. It began when Communist North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950. South Korea fought back an in the end 1953, Korea was still divided at 38 parallel and it remains that way today.
    2. The Korean War gavae the US a reason to increase military through out the Cold War. Under Truman, military increased rapidly.

  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    1. The United States joined forces with Republic of South Vietnam. in Contesting Communist forces against North Vietnamese. The United States had the largest foreign military. Known as the American War. Communist won April 1975. 58 thousadand killed, 150,000 were wounded, and 10,000 missing.
    2. The only war America ever lost.

  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    1. Known as the "Spage Age" Russia launched the sputnik, Worlds first artificail satellite.This spacecraft burned in the atmosphere.
    2. The fact the Russians on getting it up there, fed fear to the U.S. military had fallen behind in developing new technology. It raised the Cold Wars tensions.

  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs
    1. Fidel Castro drove his army into Havana and overthrow General Fulgencio Batista. Invaders were badly outnumbered by Castro and surrendered after less than 24 hours of fighting.
    2. The attack was an utter failure. The Cuban leader was a threat to U.S. interest in the Western Hemisphere.

  • Creation of the Berlin Wall

    Creation of the Berlin Wall
    1. The German Communist government of the Democratic Republican began building a barbed wire and concrete wall between East and West Berlin. The purpose of the Berlin Wall was to keep Western "Fascists" from entering East germany.
    2. The Berlin Wall came to show the different systems of the government, how they worked, and what poeple thought of them.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    1. United States and Russian rulers engaged in a 13 day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear armed Solviet missiles on Cuba. President John Kennedy made a descion to enact naval blokcade around Cuba and made it clear the U.S. was prepared to use military force if necessary to neutralize this preceived threat to national security.
    2. People feared the world was on a brink of nuclear war.

  • Solviet Invasion of Afghanistan

    Solviet Invasion of Afghanistan
    1. The Solviet organized a massive military airliftinto Kabul. Proclaimeda "Holy War" they gained the Islams to their side. 15,000 Solviet soldiers killed.
    2. The Solviet never recovered from the public relations, adn financial losses, led to the fall of trhe Solviet Empire in 1991.

  • Gorbachev's Reforms (Perestroika/Glasnost)

    Gorbachev's Reforms (Perestroika/Glasnost)
    1. Mikhail S. Gorbachev launched his nation on a democratic new course. Gorbachev's Revolutionary Program caaught the attention of the communist governments throughout the Eastern Europe from power and put and end the Cold War.
    2. Ended the Cold War.

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Fall of the Berlin Wall
    1. Communist head of East Germany announced you cna cross the borders anytime you please.
    2. The wall was one of the most powerful symbols of the Cold War, seperating families and people froms jobs and oppurtunity in the West.