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The Cold War Illustrated Timeline

By nmaddox

  • Event 1

    Event 1
    The U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Potsdam Conference - Truman - Stalin and British divide up Europe

  • Event 2

    Event 2
    The Communists Communists achieve power over Poland.

  • Event 3

    Event 3
    Truman anounced his Doctrine to the country.

  • Event 4

    Event 4
    The Berlin Airlift begins and it ends on May 19, 1949.

  • Event 5

    Event 5
    In April of 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was established.

  • Event 6

    Event 6
    The U.S. and other U.N. members fight North Korean forces.
    the Korean War ends July 27, 1953.

  • Event 7

    Event 7
    The Soviets launch first man‑made satellite.

  • Event 8

    Event 8
    The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba begins.

  • Event 9

    Event 9
    The Cuban Missile Crisis begins. It worries many different countries.

  • Event 10

    Event 10
    The President of the United States, Richard Nixon, visits China.

  • Event 11

    Event 11
    South Vietnam falls to Communist forces.

  • Event 12

    Event 12
    Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union, the following year he declares glasnost and perestroika.

  • Event 13

    Event 13
    On December 1989, the Berlin Wall is destroyed.

  • Event 14

    Event 14
    George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev agree to the reunification of Germany in 1994.

  • Event 15

    Event 15
    The Soviet Union is abolished. Boris Yeltsin becomes President of Russia.