Cold War Timeline

  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    One of the first international crises of the cold war
  • Creation of NATO

    Creation of NATO
    NATO was the first peacetime military alliance.
  • Creation of Warsaw Pact

    Creation of Warsaw Pact
    Treaty of friendship, collection defence treaty signed in Warsaw.
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    First artificial satalite launched by USSR.
  • Construction of The Berlin Wall

    Construction of The Berlin Wall
    The wall was constructed to exile Berlin from East Germany
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    Caribbean Crisis or the missle scare was a 13 day confrontation
  • Moon Landing

    Moon Landing
    Apollo 11 was launched to the moon. In four days the team landed on the moon.
  • Destruction of Berlin Wall

    Destruction of Berlin Wall
    The wall cut off Berlin from all of East Germany.