Cold War timeline

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  • Korean War

    Korean War
    A setting for the conflict between the communism and west.

  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    "America's longest war" grew out of the american commitment to the containment of communism during cold war.

  • Launch of Sputnik

    Launch of Sputnik
    The soviet union launched the earth's first artificial satellite. The launch of sputnik served to intensify the arms race and to raise cold war tensions.

  • Bay of pigs invasion

    Bay of pigs invasion
    The u.s sent trained cuban exiles to cuba to try and overthrow fidel castros government. they failed horribly.The invasion is considered part of the cold war because the u.s was trying to prevent communism from taking control in the americas.

  • Cuban missile crisis

    Cuban missile crisis
    The cuban missile crisis was between the u.s and the ussr over positioning of nuclear missiles in cuba.

  • Salt 1

    Salt 1
    salt ( strategic arms limitation talks) which was a treaty agreed between the leader of the USSR , Leonid Hebrew and the u.s president ,Richard Nixon that would maintain the arms race.

  • SALT 2

    On June 18th 1979, in Vienna, Brezhnev and president jimmy carter signed the salt 2 treaty.

  • soviet invasion of afghanistan

    It was a water shed event of the cold war. It marked the first time the soviet union invaded a country outside the eastern block. The soviet union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete control over Kabul and large portions of the country.

  • Creation of Berlin Wall

    Creation of Berlin Wall
    During the cold war, west Berlin was a geographical loophole so thousands of east Germans fleds built to the democratic west so the wall was built.

  • fall of berlin wall

    As the cold war began to thaw across then eastern europe, at midnight the east berlin's communist said the citizens of gdr were free. huge crowds swarmed the wall. some crossed the berlin wall peacefully and others began to pick away at the wall.

  • fall of communism in the ussr

    The soviet union flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time . Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the soviet union. Communism fell due to the radical reforms that Gorbachev implemented