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Cold War Begins
The Cold War was the rivalry between the communist Soviet Union and its allies against the United States and its Western allies. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was the American program to aid Europe, the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. The main goals of the United States were to rebuild a war-devastated region, modernize industry, and make Europe a good place again. -
The Berlin Airlift
Soviets placed a blockade on the allied sector of Berlin to starve the population into Soviet alliance to gain supremacy. The blockade was a high point in the cold war, and it led to the berlin airlift. -
Forming of NATO
In 1949, further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO. -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955. -
U-2 Reconnaissance Plane
The US's CIA had a plane trying to spy on the Soviets. The purpose was to over fly and photograph denied territory from his U2 spy plane deep inside Russia. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay Of Pigs invasion is the CIA sponsored American attack of the Cuban government to overthrow Fidel Castro. The US planned to appear as innocent in this attack and declared about their non-intention to intervene in Cuban affairs, Cuba had already approached the UN with the facts about the US training mercenaries for this planned invasion. -
Creation of Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was created in the dead of night and for kept East Germans from fleeing to the West for 28 years. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded. -
The Fall of Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall happened very quickly after it was made.
As Communism began to falter in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia in 1988 and 1989, new exodus points were opened to East Germans who wanted to flee to the West. On November 9, 1989 the wall had fallen. -
Cold War Ends
In 1991 the Cold War had finally came to an end.
