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Early Cold War

By 18nphillips

  • Chinese Civil War (between Jiang Jieshi and Mao Zedong)

    Chinese Civil War (between Jiang Jieshi and Mao Zedong)
    The Chinese Civil War was a civil war in China fought between forces loyal to the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China, and forces loyal to the Communist Party of China

  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade
    was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany

  • BERLIN AIRLIFT

    BERLIN AIRLIFT
    to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin, the Russians–who wanted Berlin all for themselves–closed all highways, railroads and canals

  • Formation of NATO

    Formation of NATO
    the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

  • National Security Council Report NSC-68

    National Security Council Report NSC-68
    was a 58-paged top secret policy paper issued by the United States National Security Council on April 14, 1950, during the presidency of Harry S. Truman

  • Korean War

    Korean War
    On June 25, 1950, the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western

  • President Truman fires General MacArthur

    President Truman fires General MacArthur
    In perhaps the most famous civilian-military confrontation in the history of the United States, President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of command of the U.S. forces in Korea.

  • Launching of Sputnik

    Launching of Sputnik
    he successful launch of the unmanned satellite Sputnik I by the Soviet Union in October 1957 shocks and frightens many Americans. As the tiny satellite orbited the earth

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    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 in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. In a TV address on October 22, 1962, President John Kennedy (1917-63) notified Americans

  • Formation of the Warsaw Pact

    the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization .