Cold war timeline

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    Soviet Creation of Nuclear weapons

    The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II.
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    Yalta Conference

    The conference was about bringing the 3 leaders together. Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt to discuss Europe's postwar reorganization
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    Potsdam conference

    the 3 leaders met again to discuss what they would do postwar. Germany surrendered In may 1945
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    Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombing

    The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, with the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement
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    Molotov Plan

    The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe
  • Truman Doctrine

    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.
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    Brussels Treaty

    The treaty provided for the organisation of military, economic, social and cultural cooperation among member states. Was terminated in 2010
  • Marshall Plan

    also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II
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    Berlin Blockade

    The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
  • NATO

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 North American and European countries. it still exists to this day.
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    Korean War

    The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea
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    Fidel Castro taking over

    The Cuban communist revolutionary and politician Fidel Castro took part in the Cuban Revolution from 1953 to 1959. Castro was pardoned by Batista's government in May 1955, who no longer considered him a political threat.
  • Stalin’s Death

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    Warsaw pact

    The treaty consisted of friendship,cooperation, and Mutual assistance. Was dissolved in 1991. signed during the cold war
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    Vietnam War

    The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975
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    Hungarian Revolution

    The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, or the Hungarian Uprising, was a nationwide revolution against the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956.
  • NORAD

    Canada and the states agreed the create the North American Air Defense Command, now known as the North American Aerospace Defense Command. NORAD is an organization that protects North America
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    Bay of pigs

    The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution.
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    Creation of the Berlin wall and Destruction

    The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Construction of the Wall was commenced by the German Democratic Republic on 13 August 1961. was destroyed November 1991
  • End of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.
  • Nuclear Arms Treaties

    The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. signed July 1st 1968 effective march 5th 1970
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    Afghanistan/soviet war

    The Soviet–Afghan War was a conflict wherein insurgent groups known collectively as the mujaheddin, as well as smaller Maoist groups, fought a guerrilla war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government for over nine years, throughout the 1980s, mostly in the Afghan countryside.
  • Solidarity in Poland

    Solidarity emerged on 31 August 1980 when the communist government of Poland signed the agreement allowing for its existence. On 17 September 1980, over twenty Inter-factory Founding Committees of free trade unions merged at the congress into one national organization NSZZ Solidarity.
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    Czechoslovakia revolution

    Czechoslovakia, occurring from 17 November to 29 December 1989. Popular demonstrations against the one-party government of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia included students and older dissidents. Wikipedia
  • End of the Cold war.