Early Cold War Timeline

  • Chinese Civil War

    Chinese Civil War
    as a civil war in China fought between forces loyal to the kmt
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949. At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany
  • berilin blockade

    berilin blockade
    The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany
  • Formation of NATO

    Formation of NATO
    NATO was basically a treaty to protect the allies from threatening nations like the USSR. It basically said that and nation under the NATO then they will be protected by the other nations from an “intrusion from a nation not under the treaty. Any member being attacked would get support from all other nations. Any attack from one would be considered an attack to all of the signed nations. BUT the nations that are helping another they are not required to use military force, they can choose their
  • Korean War

    Korean War
    a war between North and South Korea,
  • National Security Council Report NSC-68

    National Security Council Report NSC-68
    Secret paper that stated the U.S would go to military actions if a problem arrived even if a diplomatic solution was possible
  • President Truman fires General MacArthur

    President Truman fires General MacArthur
    General Douglas MacArthur was releived of duty for he extream idea of going to war with china.
  • Warsaw pact

    Warsaw pact
    motivated by Soviet to maintain control over military forces in Central and Eastern Europe.
  • Launching of Sputnik

    Launching of Sputnik
    was the first artificial Earth satellite
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    Confrontation with the USSR and america with balistic weapons