Cold War Timeline

  • "Little boy" was dropped on Hiroshima

  • "Fat Man" was dropped on Nagasaki

  • Period: to

    Cold War began and ended

  • Truman Doctrine

  • NATO was formed

  • Soviets dropped their nuclear bomb

  • Berlin was divided

    Divided into communist east berlin and democratic west berlin
  • Enewetak was dropped

  • Soviets dropped their thermonuclear bomb

  • Warsaw pact was formed

  • Sputnik-1 was launched

  • The explorer was launched

  • Berlin Wall was built

  • Period: to

    Belin Wall came to an end

  • Soviet union dissolved into component republics