Hinds

By cmurray

  • Stalin becomes leader

  • Period: to

    Cold War

  • President Truman entered office

  • August 8 1945, Russia enters war against Japan

  • August 14 1945, Japanese surrender End of World War II

  • August 6 1945, United States first used atomic bomb in war

  • Churchill warns of iron Curtain

  • Berlin Blockade begins

  • July 1949, NATO ratified

  • February 1950 Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt

  • Stalin ends being leader

  • President Truman ended office

  • Vietnam lasted from 54-75

  • May 1955 Warsaw Pact was formed

  • November 1958 Khrushchev demands withdrawal of troops from Berlin

  • Berlin Wall begins

    Berlin block turns into Berlin Wall

  • President Kennedy entered being in office

  • Time Frame of the Cold War

  • U.S. involvement in Vietnam increased

  • President Kennedy got assinated in Dallas Texas

  • August 1968, Soviet troops crush Czechoslovakian revolt

  • Detente

  • In April 1970, President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia

  • In October 1973, Egypt and Syria attack Israel; Egypt requests Soviet aid

  • Berlin Wall ends

  • In December 1989, Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania; Soviet empire ends

  • In March 1990, Lithuania becomes independent

  • In May 1990, Boris Yeltsin elected to presidency of Russia

  • October 3, 1990 Germany reunited

  • April 1991 Warsaw Pact ends

  • August 1991, End of Soviet Union Cold War Ends