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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