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Cold War Timeline

By JudsonWelter

  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
    Germany divided into 4 zones

  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference
    Conference for the end of world war 2

  • Arms Race

    Arms Race
    Competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the united states and russia.

  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima
    First atomic bomb used, results shock world

  • Nagasaki

    Second atomic bomb ever used, dropped 3 days after Hiroshima

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    Truman asking Congress to support Greece

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    Aid European countries

  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade
    Soviets attempt to limit the ability of france

  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    Brought food to the people

  • Korean War

    Korean War
    Beginning of the Korean War

  • Stalin Death

    Stalin Death
    Joseph Stalin dies of a heart attack in Kuntsevo Dacha, Moscow, Russia

  • Rosenburg spy case

    Rosenburg spy case
    American communists executed for espionage

  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    First war that the United States lost

  • Start of Space Race

    Start of Space Race
    First intercontinental ballistic missile

  • U-2 Incident

    U-2 Incident
    United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union

  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs
    Unsuccessful raid of cuba by trained Cuban exiles

  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall
    Berlin wall created

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    13 day confrontation between the US and Soviets

  • End of space race

    End of space race
    The Space race between the United States and Russia ends as Russia completes the First multinational human-crewed mission

  • USSR breakup

    USSR breakup
    USSR is struggling and breaks up, now becomes Russia