Cold War Timeline

By amartinez203

  • Venona Papers

    Venona Papers
    The Venona project was an American government effort from 1943-1980 to decrypt coded messages by intelligence forces of the Soviet Union. To see if they were gonna plan an attack or invade the U.S.

  • Iron curtain

    Iron curtain
    All it was a boundary that seprated the soviet union from eastern europe.

  • Truman Doctorine

    Truman Doctorine
    Was basically a document that stated that the united states government would contain the soviet threats in greece and turkey.

  • Berlin blockade and Airlift

    Berlin blockade and Airlift
    The united kingdom had sent suppiles into germany and since this was after world war 2 germany felt uncomfortable that britan was sneding things in to their land. So in return germany closed off thier railrods and borders so that other countries couldent enter.

  • Rosenburg Trial

    Rosenburg Trial
    It was about twp people who are accused of selling neuclear weapons to the soviet union. It sums up just about every love story told today.

  • Koeran War

    Koeran War
    Was a war that the koreans had to prove who wa the right side to lead both nations.THe united states was on the side of the south and china was on the side of the north. Its still an ongoing war today its just calmed down to the point to where it is just verbal threats.

  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    Sputnik one wasthe first sastillete to enter space.It was made in the soviet union to be ther first in history to enter space and to transmit radio waves. But it had burned into flames as it was going dwon from orbit.

  • U2 spyplane incident

    U2 spyplane incident
    THis was a plane that the U.S had sent over soviet airspace. Russia saw it knew that the united states was spying on them so they had shot it down. all of this had happened on may first .

  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs
    This was an attempt to liberate the communism there that cia had undergone but had failed becuase they had messed up in the capture. After all this it ended two days later on April 19.

  • Berlin wall setup and demolition

    Berlin wall setup and demolition
    All of this had happened on August 1 1961. This wall was made to keep out facists from western germany. In November 1981 they had taken down the wall and they let the people travel and pass threw germany.