Cold war

Cold War Timeline

By Ayneisha

  • Berlin Blockade & Airlift

    Berlin Blockade & Airlift
    An international crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union, in 1948–49, to force the Western Allied power. This was a turning point in post World War 2 Europe.

  • Korean War

    Korean War
    This is where things really got heated between the Soviets and the US. June 1950 was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union.

  • Space Race

    Space Race
    The US and Soviets had an intense rivalry about space and who can get the farthest first. Soviets started with the lead with Sputnik , however when they kept competing it actually brought them together and made the International Space Station.

  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    The Sputnik crisis was the American reaction to the success of the Sputnik program.It was a key Cold War event that began on October 4, 1957 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite.

  • Bay Of Pigs

    Bay Of Pigs
    This embarrassed the US it was a complete failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group.

  • Creation of the Berlin Wall

    Creation of the Berlin Wall
    The Berlin Wall was erected in the dead of night and for 28 years kept East Germans from fleeing to the West.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    This was the the closest to the US and the Soviets actually fighting. This includes nuclear warfare also.

  • Soviets Invade Afghanistan

    Soviets Invade Afghanistan
    The US and the Soviets each back a different side and this led to the US boycotting the 1980 Olympics.

  • Berlin War Taken Down

    Berlin War Taken Down
    This represented the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Once the wall was broken, people from East Germany were celbrating because they were finally free.

  • Dissolution of the USSR

    Dissolution of the USSR
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formally dissolved on 26 December 1991 by declaration of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. This declaration acknowledged the independence of all fifteen republics of the Soviet Union following the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States.