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Truman Doctrine, beginning of war
Since 1947 when Presidents Truman of the United States declared an anti-communist policy, the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union has begun. -
Berlin Blockade
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 Allied control. Their aim was to force the western powers to allow the Soviet zone to start supplying Berlin with food, fuel, and aid, thereby giving the Soviets practical control over the entire city. This source from wikipedia. -
Arms race
Cold War tensions increased in the US when the USSR exploded its first atomic bomb. -
The signing of NATO
12 foreign ministers of the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Portugal and Italy held the North Atlantic Treaty signing ceremony in Washington. -
Korean War
With the possible exception of the war of 1812 the Korean conflict of the 1950s might be the most forgotten war in U.S. history, as far as U.S. citizens are concerned. But it's important for our purposes here because it signals that the focus of the Cold War was moving into Asia by the 1950s. -
Arms race
Cold war tesions increased in the USSR when the US exploded its first hydrogen bomb. It was 1000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. -
Space Race
In the year 1957, the Soviets shocked the Western world by putting two satellites into orbit, that both were powered by rockets. -
Angolan Civil War
The Angolan Civil War (Portuguese: Guerra civil angolana) was a major civil conflict in the African state of Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with some interludes, until 2002. The war began immediately after Angola became independent from Portugal in November 1975. Prior to this, a decolonisation conflict, the Angolan War of Independence (1961–74), had taken place. The following civil war was essentially a power struggle between two former liberation movements, the People's Movement for -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Never the less once he took control of the country he did extend an olive branch to the United States, recognizing that in the western hemisphere you weren't going to get too far without playing ball with America, but because of his communist ties, Castro's overtures were rejected and he then turned firmly to the Soviet Union and he made Cuba a client of America's biggest rival in the Cold War and so of course by 1961 when Jack Kennedy took office as president, there was a real fear in this coun -
The cuban Missile Crisis, began
The crisis began on Oct. 15, 1962 when recunnaissance revealed Soviet missiles under construction in Cuba. After seven days of intense debate within the White House, Kennedy imposed a blockade around Cuba to stop the arrival of more Soviet missiles. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
On Oct. 22, Kennedy announced the discovery of the missiles and his decision to blockade Cuba and that any attack launched from Cuba would be regarded as an attack on the US by the USSR and demanded that the Soviets remove all of their offensive weapons from Cuba. -
Indo-Pakistani War
The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 was a culmination of skirmishes that took place between April 1965 and September 1965 between Pakistan and India. -
Ethio-Somali War
The Ethio-Somali War was a conventional conflict fought by Ethiopia and Somalia between July 1977 and March 1978 over the disputed Ogaden region in present-day eastern Ethiopia. -
The end of the cold war
The economic collapse destorys the fragile polotical system of USSR. In 1991, the disintegration of the Soviet Union means the ead of the Cold War.
