cold war timeline

By laylaraffaelli

  • United Nations formed

    United Nations formed
    The United Nations was an international organization 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
    With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman 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
    refused to testify to an anti-communist committee hearing during the Second Red Scare era

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    The marshall plan proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe.

  • NATO formed

    NATO formed
    NATO is a security alliance of 30 countries from North America and Europe

  • Korean war

    Korean war
    After five years of simmering tensions on the Korean peninsula, the Korean War began on June 25, 1950, when 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

  • U.S. official enters Vietnam War

    U.S. official enters Vietnam War
    The United States entered Vietnam with the principal purpose of preventing a communist takeover of the region

  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    a basketball sized satellite that became the first manmade object to orbit the Earth

  • Bay of Pigs

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

  • Berlin wall built

    Berlin wall built
    The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep so-called Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West.

  • Soviets invade Afghanistan

    Soviets invade Afghanistan
    The Soviet Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989.

  • Berlin wall comes down

    Berlin wall comes down
    The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was a pivotal moment, not just in the Cold War but in the history of modern Europe. It was brought about by political reforms inside the Soviet bloc, escalating pressure from the people of eastern Europe and ultimately, confusion over an East German directive to open the border