The Cold War timeline- History

The Cold War

Time Line

1945

Bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and nagasaki- 1945Germany is divided- 1945Yalta confrency- 1945VE- Day- 1945VJ day- 1945

Marshall plan initiated- 1947Plan to give aid to Europe.Truman Doctrine announced to congress- 1947U.S gave weapons to Greece and Turkey

Churchill's Iron Curtain speech- 1946

NATO Created- 1949Group of allied nations that were against communism.

Unite Nations Charter is signed- 1942.The charter is the Treaty for the United Nations. It was signed in San Francisco.

1947

1949

1952

1970-73

1942

1946

1948

1950

1953

Berlin airlift- 1948-49Berlin Blockade- 1948-49Soviets cut off all transportation to West Berlin.

Soviets explode their first atomic bomb- 1949China falls to communism- 1949Eisenhower becomes president- 1952Stalin dies- 1953

Koren War armistice-1953Sputnik launched- 1957Khrushchev replaces Stalin- 1958Castro comes to powerin Cuba- 1959

Warsaw pact erected- 1955 Group of communist countries ruled by the Soviets.

Brezhnev comes to power- 1960J.F.K elected president- 1960Nixon elected president- 1960Soviets put first man in space- 1961Berlin wall erected 61

1955

1957

1958

1959

1960

1961-4

U-2 plane shot down over Soviet Union- 1960

Bay of pigs conflict- 1961 U.S. trained cubans to fight agaisnt Fidel Castro.Cuban Missle Crisis- 1962 The soviets wanted to put missles in Cuba.

Kennedy visits berlin- 1963"Ich bin ein Berliner"Iam a berliner.Kennedy assassinated-

first nuclear test ban treaty signed- 1963Gulf of Tonkin Resolution- 1964

Apollo 11- 1969Nuclear non-proliferation treaty singned- 1970

Alan Shepared launched into space- 1971Paris peasce talks begin- 1973