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World War II ends and the Cold War begins
World War II ended and the Cold War started. The Cold War was between the worlds superpowers, Soviet Union and United States. This war was not a physical battle. It was fought by using propaganda, economics, and politics. It was significant because it involved two very power countries fighting against communism. -
Winston Churchill delivers the Iron Curtain Speech
Winston Churchill made this speech to warn America and the Western world of the threat by Josef Stalin and the Soviet Union. -
US and Britain break the Soviet blockade of West Berlin with the Berlin Airlift
The main cause of the Berlin Blockade was the Cold War, which was just getting started. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization is formed
North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
Korean War
The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United States came to the aid of South Korea. -
Korean War
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Vietnam War Begins
The Vietnam War was fought between South and North Vietnam because of the spread of communism. -
Warsaw Pact is formed
The treaty was signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members. -
US is defeated and humiliated at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba
1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. -
Berlin wall is built
East Germany begins building the Berlin Wall to divide East and West Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
Vietnam war is over
North Vietnam won the war and continued to spread communism. -
Fall of the Berlin wall
The Berlin Wall was torn down as a symbol of the fall of the repressive East German communist government. When East Germans were finally allowed to freely enter West Germany, on Nov. 9, 1989, thousands of Germans responded emotionally by demolishing the wall -
Germany is reunited
East and West Berlin were reunited, and joined the Federal Republic as a city. -
Soviet Union collapses
Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state.