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Early Cold War Timeline

By Ben Artrip

  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade
    The Berlin Blockade (1 April 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II

  • Berlin airlift

    Berlin airlift
    Berlin airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin.

  • NATO

    NATO
    Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party

  • Korean War

    Korean War
    The Korean War (in South Korea: Hangeul: , Hanja: , "Korean War"; in North Korea: , Joguk Haebang Jeonjaeng, "Fatherland Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953)

  • President Truman fires General MacArthur

    On 11 April 1951, U.S. President Harry S. Truman relieved General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of his commands after MacArthur made public statements which contradicted the administration's policies.

  • Warsaw pact

    Warsaw pact
    The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War

  • Launching of Sputnik

    Launching of Sputnik
    History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball (58 cm.or 22.8 inches in diameter), weighed only 83.6 kg. or 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path

  • The Missle scare

    The Missle scare
    The Missile Scare, or the Caribbean Crisis ctober 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. It played out on television worldwide and was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.

  • NSC-68

    NSC-68
    National Security Council Report 68 (NSC-68) was a 58-paged top secret policy paper issued by the United States National Security Council on April 14, 1950

  • Chinese Civil War

    Chinese Civil War
    Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887 – April 5, 1975) was a Chinese political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975.