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Yalta Conference
At Yalta, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin made important decisions regarding the future progress of the war and the postwar world. http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/a_us_history/cold_war_timeline.htm -
United States Drops Atomic Bomb
United States Drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan.
The Allies feared that any conventional attempt to invade the Japanese home islands would result in enormous casualties, and the bomb was seen as a way of bringing the war against Japan to a swift conclusion. In addition, it may also have been a way of demonstrating American military superiority over the Soviet Union. http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/a_us_history/cold_war_timeline.htm -
First Communist Government
The first East European Communist government was set up in Albania http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/a_us_history/cold_war_timeline.htm -
Berlin Airlift
Because the entire city of Berlin was suppounded and unable to get goods in or out, becuase of the soviet control, U.S. and thier allies dropped goods into the city by aircraft. http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/a_us_history/cold_war_timeline.htm -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was established. NATO was seen as being a viable military deterrent against the military might of the Soviet Union. The original members of NATO were USA, UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, France, Canada, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark and Iceland. Greece and Turkey joined in 1952. http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/a_us_history/cold_war_timeline.htm
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Soviet Union's Atomic Bomb
Soviet Union Explodes First Atomic Bomb http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/a_us_history/cold_war_timeline.htm -
Warsaw Pact formed
A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/a_us_history/cold_war_timeline.htm -
Soviets launch first man‑made satellite
While the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of the space age and the U.S.-U.S.S.R space race. http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/ -
Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba
Cuban leader Fidel Castro established the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere after leading an overthrow of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959. http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/fidel-castro -
Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba
Fidel Castro (1926-) drove his guerilla army into Havana and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista (1901-1973), the nation’s American-backed president.American-trained Cubans who had fled their homes when Castro took over. However, the invasion did not go well: The invaders were badly outnumbered by Castro’s troops, and they surrendered after less than 24 hours of fighting. http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/bay-of-pigs-invasion -
East Germany builds Berlin Wall.
The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep 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. http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall -
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cuban-missile-crisis -
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union
When Mikhail S. Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in March 1985, he launched his nation on a dramatic new course. His dual program of “perestroika” (“restructuring”) and “glasnost” (“openness”) introduced profound changes in economic practice, internal affairs and international relations. http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/perestroika-and-glasnost -
Berlin Wall is demolished
On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to come to an end in Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin’s Communist Party announced a change in his city’s relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country’s borders. http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall -
The Soviet Union is abolished
The Soviet Union is abolished ending the cold war. http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/a_us_history/cold_war_timeline.htm
