Coldwar TImeline
Category: Outro
Atualizado: 11 mai 2018
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Created byBillal Osman - THH Student
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United Nations Formation
The U.S and Axis powers discussed
in Washington to form a union for
peace.Truman Doctrine
American foreign policy
whose stated purpose
was to counter Soviet geopolitical
expansion proposed by U.S president
Harry S. Truman and later expanded upon.Berlin Blockade
The Soviet Union built a wall
in an attempt to stop aid to Allied powers,
this eventually didn't work as the Allies to
aid by air. After this wall was torn down it split
Germany into two separate countries.U.S.S.R Explode First Atomic Bomb
The Soviets successfully exploded
their first their first bomb created
unnecessary tensions between
them and the U.SExecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
With accusations of these Soviets being
spies and sending information to the U.S.S.R
about the atomic bomb, they were eventually executedConstruction of the Berlin Wall
Nikita Khrushchev wanted to test President
Kennedy by threat to see his strength and weaknesses
. President Kennedy sent troops to the site. Once arrived,
East Germany flees to West Berlin.
This is where the East German
Government and the Soviets
build a wall to keep people
in and separate democracy from
communism.Sputnik Satellite
The Soviets wanted to be superior
to the western world in more ways than one,
this included the launching the first satellite called Sputnik,
this sparked the space raceU-2 Incident
Since the space race, both the U.S.
and the U.S.S.R. continue to try and
build up their superiority through
economics. On May 1, the Soviets shot down a
U-2 spy plane that was from the U.S.
This caused the U.S. a big embarrassment.SALT Treaty
For the first time during the Cold War,
the United States and Soviet Union had
agreed to limit the number of nuclear
missiles in their arsenals.Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight
that landed the first two humans on the
Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong
and pilot Buzz AldrinBay of Pigs Invasion
The U.S. tries to overthrow Castro in an
invasion with 1,500 men that were trained
by the CIA. The troops landed in the Bay of Pigs,
but they did not have enough power. The U.S.
then sent troops from American for help, but
Castro captured and killed many. To the world
, the U.S. was seen as being damaged.Fidel Castro Takes Over Cuba
A young Fidel Castro lead the
Revolution against the current leader
Batista and eventually won taking power.U.S Troops Exit Vietnam
President Nixon decided
to pull troops stationed in Vietnam
out, giving power to the SouthFall of the Berlin Wall
As the Cold War began to be less
severe the relationship between East
and West Germany strengthened and
in result the wall separating them was torn down.Cold War Ends
As the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
resigns he gives a speech that
the war with the U.S was over
and the country was free for anybody to joinGorbachev Ends Economic Aid
Gorbachev stops sending economic
aid to other communist governments in
Europe, this eventually led to the fall of the U.S.S.RWarsaw Pact Ends
A pact signed in 1955 comes to an end
along with the cold war, which was
established as a balance of powerSoviet Troops Leave Afghanistan
the Soviet Union signed the
Geneva Accords with the United States, Pakistan and Afghanistan that created a
timetable for withdrawal. The last Soviet troops left Afghanistan on Feb. 15,
1989, ending an occupation that lasted more than nine years.Períodos
Communist Soviet, Joseph Stalin Term as Premier of the Soviet UnionPresident Franklin Delano Roosevelt Term in OfficePresident Harry Truman Term in OfficeDwight Eisenhower Term in OfficeJohn F. Kennedy Term in OfficeLyndon Johnson Term in OfficeRichard Nixon Term in OfficeGerald Ford Term in OfficeJimmy Carter Term in OfficeRonald Reagan Term in OfficeCommunist Soviet, Nikita Khrushchev Term as Premier of the Soviet UntionCommunist Soviet Nikita Brezhnev Term as General Secretary Communist the Communist PartyCommunist Soviet, Mikhail Gorbachev Term as General Secretary of the Communist PartyYalta Conference
The current most powerful leaders,
Winston Churchill,
Joseph Stalin and Franklin Roosevelt
discussed the post WW2 world,
and managed to split
Germany into four
groups being watched
over by the U.S, Great Britain, France,
and the
Soviet Union.Potsdam Conference
With the death of Roosevelt and election
giving office to Attlee,
the two discussed how
they would occupy and control
the post war Germany.Korean War
The Korean War began when North Korea,
supported by the Soviet Union and China,
invaded South Korea, which was supported
by the United States. General MacArthur, leader
of the United Nations forces, drove the North Koreans back across the divide,
yet encountered a Chinese invasionCuban Missile Crisis
A confrontation between the U.S and Cuba.
The U.S.S.R's leader leader Khrushchev
urged U.S troops to leave Berlin, and
set up a missile in Cuba, which in result
almost caused nuclear war.U.S Becomes Heavily Involved in Vietnam
Major superpowers become involved
in war with Vietnam. The world, at the time,
was divided into two blocs or actions. These
were coming to an end though. As well, the U.S.
was falling apart since it had been involved in so
much.Iranian Hostage Crisis
Fifty two american diplomats in the
capitol of Iran, Tehran, were captured
and taken hostage for 444 days by
Iranian Revolutionists.Iran-Contra Scandal
While Americans were held hostage
in Iran, a deal was arranged to trade
missiles and funds, while these funds were
also secretly used to fund a rebel
group in Nicaragua called "Contra"
this almost took the Presidency from Reagan
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