Cold War Time Line By Alix MacDonald

House Un-American Activities formed

May 1, 1938

It was created to investigate alleged disloyality and subversive activities on the part of private citizines, public employes and organizations supected of having Communists ties.

Yalta Conference

Feb 25, 1945

Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met at Yalta on the Black Sea in February 1945 to discuss final strategy and crucial questions concerning plans for a postwar world.

Potsdam Conference

Feb 25, 1945

The Potsdam Conference is a conference between Stalin and Truman. Truman left Potsdam thinking that the Soviet Union was “planning world conquest” and that we were losing ou alliance with the Soviet Union.

Truman Doctrine

Mar 12, 1947

offers aid and food to Greece and Turkey so they can resist communism.

Marshall Plan

Jan 25, 1948

opens that aid to other European countries.

Berlin Airlift

Jun 25, 1948

brings food and supplies to people trapped in Berlin after Stalin blockades to city- hoping to starve them into submission.

NATO formation

Mar 25, 1949

North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a military alliance joining Western Europe and North America

Era of McCarthyism

Mar 28, 1950

McCarthyism was based on the actions of Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthyism also because a catchword for the extreme reckless charges.

North Korean Invasion of South Korea

Jun 25, 1950

North Korea invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950. Within days the South is all but defeated.

Rosenberg Execution

Jun 19, 1953

Julius and Ethel Rosenburg were found guilty of relaying U.S Military secrets to the Soviet Union and sentenced to death

Armistice Signed Ending Korean War

Jul 25, 1953

signed in July 1953 between North and South Korea

Warsaw Pact formation

Mar 25, 1955

was formed by the Soviet Union and its satellites in response to NATO

Sputnik 1 Launched

Oct 4, 1957

first satellite to leave the Earth's atmosphere

First Man in Space

Apr 25, 1961

Yuri Gargarin rode in the USSR to get to space.

First American in Space

May 25, 1961

Alan Shepherd used the Mercury Freedom 7 to get to space.

Creation of the Berlin Wall

Aug 13, 1961

the Berlin Wall was a dividing wall built by Eastern Germany to isolate West Berlin from Communist that controlled East Berlin.

First Man On The Moon

Jul 20, 1969

Neil Armstrong uses Apollo 11 lands on the moon