The Cold War

By rahadawe
  • 1945 BCE

    yalta conference

    This even conference on fed 4-11 at this conference FDR winston churchill and joseph stalin made huge decisions concerning future progress of the war and post was divided up into two. yalta conference helped lead to the cold war by giving soviet union control over Eastern Europe.

  • Fidel Castro taken over

    in 1933 he attempted to overthrow the government but was captured and sentenced to 15 years of prison he gong support to overthrow the cuban government in 1959 Basista. fled to the Dominican Republic. He lmp emented reforms for factories and plantations after that he allow freedom of speech in the publicly executing Batista supported the a cuba became closer to USSR the us did not approve them.

  • Potsdam conference

    This conference took a place July 17,1945 in this meeting it was decided that vietnam would be divided at the 17th parallel. Germany would be demilitariZed,Nazi war. criminals would be prosecuted and the stalin had come to believe more strongly that the united states and great Britain were conspiring against the soviet union

  • Hiroshina bombing and Bombing of Nagaski

    it take a place the bottle lasted from August 6-9, 1945, which were the last stages of world war two on may 8, the war in Europe had ended, the pacific war continued united states, Great Britain and china were involved in this battle well Jopan was the targ for this bombing the first choice Hiroshima was bombed on August 6,1845 at 8;15am Enola Gay, the plane that carried the bomb dropped it 1900 feet about the city

  • The Molotov plan

    The Molotov plan was a system created by the soviet union in 1947. it provided aid to rebuild countries in Eastern Europe that were aligned to the soviet union in economic and political ways vyacheslav molotov had rejected the marshall plan from 1947 and proposed the molotov plan instead. the significance was to help aid countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the soviet union.

  • The Truman

    The Truman Doctrine an American foreign policy and represented a dramatic change in foreign policy. President Harry S.Truman announced it to Congress on March 12th, 1947. It is significant because it's purpose was to counter the soviet expansion during the cold war.

  • The marshall plan

    Occurred april 1948 it was the american program to and Europe in which the us gave economic support to help reialid European economies after the end of ww two in order to help prevent soviet expansion marshall plan reduced the influence and power of communist parties in western European.

  • Berlin Blacked

    Berlin Blockade take place in june 24,1948 to may 12,1949 it was one of the first mayor international crisis of the cold war.The soviet union blocked the western allies supply routes to west Berlin and plan was to force thew western Dower to start allowing soviet goad to enter west Berlin, and the plan was to porce. this has given them complete control over the city.

  • NATO

    NATO stands for "North Atlantic Treaty Organization". NATO was an alliance that consisted of 29 states in the territories of North America and Europe. The main puwas to defend each other from the possibility of communism taking over during the cold war. NATO's significance to the cold war was because it unified and strengthened the WEstern Allies' military to a very possible invasion by the Soviet union into Western Europe.

  • Korean War

    The Korean War was from June 25,1950 to July 27,1953. The U.S defended south korea from communism and we partially succeed. However, communism does spread to North Korea. This is significant to the cold war because it was the first armed conflict in the cold war. This was also the first time the U.S. was willing to send troops to expand their communism.

  • The Vietnam War

    The next major cold war conflict occurred in vietnam vietnam is country just south of china vietnam war happened in 1955-1975 it lasted for 8 years and it started indochina war between france and vietnamese Nationalists, U.S.involvement Johnson in 1964 after reports of attack on a U.S.Afghanistan/ soviet war.

  • The warsaw Pact

    The Warsaw Pact the communist counteraction to NATO, the U.S alliance. And it was a military alliance and a collective defense treaty between the Soviet union and seven Eastern european countries. it was signed in warsaw, poland during the cold war in may 1955 to become a symbol of soviet dominance in Eastern European. The warsaw pact was significant to the cold war because it showed that the USSR was trying to overcome American capitalism.

  • The Bay of pigs invasion

    In 1959, Fidel Castro became in power in an armed revolt which had overthrown the cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. After this on April 17,1961,1,400 cuban exiles started to invade at the Bay of pigs on the south coast of cuba. However, the invasion failed mainly because of poor planning, and a major lack of US air support. The Bay of pigs invasion was significant to the cold war because the united states tried to prevent communism from taking over using drastic measures.

  • Berlin wall

    On August 8th,1961, the German Democratic Republic Constructed the Berlin Wall which had separated West Berlin in Germany from the East of Germany, which surrounded it until November 9th,1989 when it was destroyed. The wall symbolized the lack of freedom under communism. The Berlin Wall was important to the cold war because it symbolized the cold war itself and the divinon between the soviet bloc and he capitalist bloc.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    In May 1960, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begun to ship ballistic missile to cuba along with technicians ro successfully operate them. The cuban missile Crisis was a dangerous confrontation between the U.S. and the USSR about the presence of active missile sites in cuba. The crisis had lasted from october 16, 1962, to october 28, 1962. It was significant to the Cold War because it was the moment when the two superpowers came the closest to nuclear conflict.

  • NORAD

    It's defence organization Canada and us created which responded to cold war threat of a nuclear missile strike against these country. After coeurl eden su expanding the communist.