Cold War Timeline

By rosej22
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    The Cold War

  • Potsdam Conference

    The Big Three- Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Harry S. Truman- met in Potsdam, Germany, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II, from July 17 to August 2 1945.

  • The Marshall Plan

    An immediate post-World War II, Europe remained ravaged by war and because of this susceptible to exploitation by internal and external Communist threat. On this day George C. Marshall, Secretary of State,gave a speech to the graduating class at Harvard University which issued a call for comprehensive rebuild of Europe.

  • Creation of Israel

    U.S. President Harry S. Truman recognized the establishment of the new nation of the State of Israel the same day, David Ben-Gurion who was thee head of the Jewish Agency proclaimed it.

  • The Berlin Airlift

    During the multi-national occupation of post Worold War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railroad, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under allied control. In response the Western Allies organized the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the West Berlin. Air Crews from the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa flew over 200,000 flights in one year, providing over 4,7000 tons of necessities daily, such as fuel and food.

  • The Formation of NATO

    The foriegn ministers of twelve countries in North America and Western Europe gathered in Washington D.C. to sign the North Atlantic Treaty. It was primarily a security pact stating a military attack against any of the signorties will be considered an attack against them all.

  • Suez Crisis

    After Egyptian Gamel Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal in July of 1956 Israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt toward the canal, Initiating the Suez Crisis. The Israeli's were soon joined by British and French forces, which nearly brought the Soviet Union into the conflict, and damaged their relationships with the United States. In the end, all three governments with drew their troops in late 1956 and early 1957.

  • The Creation of NASA

    The driving force of N.A.S.A. was the launch of Sputnik on August 13, 1957, events moved quickly after that toward the development of NASA. They came up with many different names for committes also NACA. NASA wanted to launch a program called the "Space Act" which had been amended many times.

  • Creation of the Berlin Wall

    The Communist government of the Geman Democratic Republic
    (GDR or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete "Antifascistischer Shutzwall" or "Antifasisct bulwark" between East and West Berlin.

  • USS Pueblo Incident

    The USS Pueblo (AGER - 2) was attacked in International by North Korean naval and air forces. 82 of the surviving crew-members were captured and held prisoner for eleven months.

  • Iranian Hostage Crisis

    In Tehran an angry mob of young revolutionaries overran the U.S. Embassy, taking more than 60 Americans hostages, who were held for 444 days later minutes after President Ronald Reagan took oath as office. The crisis absorbed more concentrated effort and had more extensive coverage on television and the press than any other event since World War ll.