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World War two ends
As ww2 ended, so did the cooperation of America and the soviet union . During World War II, the two countries were briefly allies. At the end of the war, the first signs of post-war mistrust and hostility began to appear between the two countries. -
Truman created the Marshall Plan
Program channeled more than $13 billion in aid to Europe between 1948 and 1951. Meant to spark economic recovery in European countries devastated by World War II. -
Berlin blockade
The 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 Western control. -
Creation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created by the United States, Canada, and Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered. -
Korean war starts
As Kim Il-sung's North Korean army, armed with Soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea's aid -
Khrushchev calls for peaceful co-existence
Was a theory developed and applied by the Soviet Union at various points during the Cold War in the context of primarily Marxist–Leninist foreign policy and was adopted by Soviet-allied socialist states that they could peacefully coexist with the capitalist bloc. -
Creation of the Warsaw Pact
This was a response to NATO through collective security. The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact. -
Hungarian uprising
demonstrates that the Warsaw Pact is not ideologically unified, but this liberation movement is crushed by Warsaw Pact forces. -
Berlin wall was built
After sealing off passage between East and West Berlin with barbed wire, East German authorities begin building a wall (the Berlin Wall) to permanently close off access to the West. The next 28 years the heavily fortified Berlin Wall stood as the symbol of the Cold War–a “iron curtain” dividing Europe. -
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 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba -
The nuclear non-proliferation treaty is signed
International treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy -
The prague spring ends
It ended when the soviet union invades, followed by the Brezhnev Doctrine. The beginning of the end. -
Vietnam war ends
This demonstrates the failure of containment and the domino effect. If one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. -
Helsinki Accords
Provide a detent during the cold war.Thirty-five states, including the US, Canada, and all European states signed the declaration in an attempt to improve relations between the Communist bloc and the West. -
Soviet invasion of afghanistan
Leads to increase of hostility. -
Pro-democracy movement in Poland.
Poland engaged in a democratic transition which put an end to the Polish People's Republic and led to the foundation of a democratic government, known as the Third Polish Republic. After ten years of democratic consolidation, Poland joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004. -
Berlin wall is torn down
The head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the germany could cross the border whenever they pleased. That night crowds swarmed the wall. Some crossed freely into West Berlin, and others brought hammers and picks and began to chip away at the wall itself. Ending the symbol of the cold war -
The soviet union ceases to exist, ending the cold war
The Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was hailed by the west as a victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism -
The Warsaw pact is dissolved
some members were looking to join NATO.Fatally stricken by the collapse of Soviet power in Eastern Europe, the Warsaw Pact today signed its own obituary with an agreement to dissolve the 36-year-old military alliance -
START is signed
(Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty)it was signed to reduce the number of nuclear weapons being created as a form of deterrence
