Cold War Timeline
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Updated: 14 May 2018
Mayor events during the Cold War time period
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Created byPaola Gonzalez Padilla - THH Student
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Forming of the United NationsTruman Doctrine
Believed that the US should support free people who are resisting attempt subjugationSoviets First Atomic Bomb
"First lightning" "RDS-1" the explosion of 22 kilotons of TNT.Sputnik I
The Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite.Rosenbergs are Executed
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg,
who were convicted of conspiring to
pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets,
are executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York.Berlin Wall Falls
People from both sides west and east destroy the Berlin wallU-2 Incident
A US spy plane is being fled to Russia and was shot down in Soviet airspaceCastro takes Cuba
Fidel Castro takes total control of Cuba and is the prime ministerBay of Pigs
The US CIA attempts to assassinate Castro. About 1,200
anti-Castro exiles were trained by the CIAApollo 11
The US launches a spaceship one of the astronauts was Neil ArmstrongUS troops in Vietnam
US president Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges full support to South VietnamSALT Treaty
Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and
U.S. President Richard Nixon,
meeting in Moscow, sign the
Strategic Arms Limitation TalksUS troops out of Vietnam
The last remaining American troops withdraw
from Vietnam as President Nixon declares
"the day we have all worked and prayed for has finally come."Cold War Ends
Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev
declares the end of the war in a speechGermany Reunites
five reestablished federal states (Bundesländer)
of East Germany—Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania,
Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia—formally
joined the Federal Republic of Germany
(West Germany), choosing one of two options
implemented in the West German constitution (Grundgesetz).Soviet Empire Ends
Gorbachev’s reforms were slow to bear fruit and did more
to hasten the collapse of the Soviet Union than to help it.
A loosening of controls over the Soviet people emboldened
independence movements in the Soviet satellites of Eastern Europe.Gorbachev ends Economic Aid
Ends economic aid to the Soviet satellite states in Eastern Europe.
This eventually produces new policies on military aid and political
interventions in the region, and ultimately to Soviet acquiescence
when revolutions spread throughout Eastern EuropeBerlin Wall
West Berlin was a geographical loophole through which thousands
of East Germans fled to the democratic West. In response,
the Communist East German authorities built a wall that totally
encircled West Berlin. It was thrown up overnightSoviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan
The Soviet 40th Army invaded Afghanistan in order to prop up
the communist government of the People's Democratic Party
of Afghanistan (PDPA) against a growing insurgency.Periods
Yalta Conference
The Allied leaders met to discuss post-war worldPotsdam Conference
The Allied made plans to occupy Germany and make Japan surrender.Berlin Blockade
The Soviets cut all and access to west Berlin and keep it
isolated from east Germany and the rest of the nationsKorean War
The Soviets & China support North Korea to invade South KoreaCold War
A catastrophic war between to major powers being the US and the USSRWarsaw Pact
The Soviet Union formed this alliance as a counterbalance to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).Vietnam War
The war sparked by the US fearing communism taking overall south-east Asia. The war cost $150 billion for USJoseph Stalin
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionNikita Khrushchev
First Secretary in the communist party USSRLeonid Brezhnev
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionMikhail Gorbachev
Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (the last leader of the Soviet UnionFranklin Delano Roosevelt
32nd US president (democrat party) died in officeHarry S. Truman
33rd US president (democratic party) took after Roosevelt diedDwight D. Eisenhower
34th US president (republican party) was an army generalJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK)
35th US president and was assassinatedLyndon Johnson
36th US president (democratic party)Richard Milhous Nixon
37th US president (republican party)Gerald Ford
38th US president (republican party)Jimmy Carter
39th US president (democratic party)Ronald Reagan
40th US president (republican party)Cuban Missile Crisis
The Soviets are providing atomic bombs to Cuba
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