Cold war

The Cold War

By keo1

  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
    The Yalta Conference begins. This is a meeting between "The Big Three", Churchill, Stalin, and Franklin Roosevelt. This ends on February 11 with the start of the Cold War.

  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference
    Germany was officially partitioned into four zones of occupation.

  • Iron Curtain Speech

    Iron Curtain Speech
    Winston Churchill gives his famous Iron Curtain speech in Missouri.

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    President Harry S. Truman declared it to be the foreign policy of the United States to assist any country whose stability was threatened by communism.

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    George Catlett Marshall gave a speech at Harvard University. This speech initiated the post-war European Aid Program and requested "some agreement among the countries of Europe as to the requirements of the situation and the part those countries themselves will take".

  • China control

    China control
    Communist Mao Zedong takes control of China and establishes the People's Republic of China.

  • Castro

    Castro
    Fidel Castro takes over Cuba.

  • Building of the Berlin Wall

    Building of the Berlin Wall
    The building of the Berlin Wall begins.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    In 1962 the Soviet Union sent nuclear missiles to Cuba. The US imposed a naval blockade on Cuba. For one week in October, the world faced the risk of nuclear war.

  • Berlin Wall Torn Down

    Berlin Wall Torn Down
    The Berlin Wall is destroyed and East Germany allows unrestricted migration to West Germany.

  • End of the Cold War

    End of the Cold War
    The Cold War ended when both the countries came together and called it off in a public conference. This was also the end of the Soviet Union.