Cold War Timeline

By jacksonkauck

  • United nations Formed

    United nations Formed
    founded in 1945 after the Second World War by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights.

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    Established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.

  • Hollywood 10

    Hollywood 10
    A group of 10 film industry members that refused to testify to an anti-communist committee hearing during the Second Red Scare era.

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    Proposed that the United States provides economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe.

  • NATO Formed

    NATO Formed
    Its purpose was to secure peace in Europe, to promote cooperation among its members and to guard their freedom.

  • Korean War

    Korean War
    The Northern Korean People's Army invaded South Korea in a coordinated general attack at several strategic points along the 38th parallel, the line dividing communist North Korea from the non-communist Republic.

  • Space Race

    Space Race
    A 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability.

  • Bay Of Pigs

    Bay Of Pigs
    Was a failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power.

  • Berlin Wall Goes Up

    Berlin Wall Goes Up
    as Berliners slept, the GDR began building fences and barriers to seal off entry points from East Berlin into the western part of the city. The overnight move stunned Germans on both sides of the new border.

  • U.S. official enters Vietnam War

    U.S. official enters Vietnam War
    The US was afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam and then the rest of Asia.

  • Soviets Invade Afghanistan

    Soviets Invade Afghanistan
    The Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country.

  • Berlin Wall Comes Down

    Berlin Wall Comes Down
    the formal opening of the border between Soviet-controlled, Communist East Berlin and Western-occupied West Berlin in 1989.