The Cold War

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  • Yalta Conference

    A meeting of all major leaders

  • World War II ends in Europe

    When the War finnally ended.

  • Major event in Europe

    First East European Communist government set up in Albania.

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman finally establishes his own doctrinde

  • Independent nations

    India and Pakistan become independent nations

  • Truman Doctrine Follow up

    The Marshall plan followed shortly after the Truman Doctrine.

  • Berlin

    The Berlin Airlift begins

  • NATO

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was established.

  • Berlin

    The Berlin Blockade finally ended

  • Communists win

    Communists finally win the Chinese Civil War

  • War begins

    U.S. and other U.N. members fight North Korean forces.

  • One of the first Overthrows

    U.S. sponsored coup overthrows Iranian governmet.

  • War Ends

    The Korean War ends

  • 2nd U.S Overthrow

    U.S. sponsored coup overthrows Guatemalan government.

  • SEATO Formed

    Southeast Asia Treaty Organization formed

  • Forming of the Warsaw Pact

    The Soviet Union and isother communist nations founded a rival alliance

  • Vietnam

    On this date the Vietnam war began

  • Red Army

    Red Army crushes the hungarian revolution

  • Sputnik

    The Soviet union successfully launched Sputnik I into space.

  • Premier of Cupa

    Fidel Castro becomes premier of CUba, Installs communist governement.

  • The U-2 Incident

    A spy plane that was shot down leaving nothing but a surviving pilot.

  • Creation of the Berlin Wall

    The wall was erected in the dead of night and for 28 years kept East Germans from fleeing to the west

  • Bay of Pigs

    Was an invasion to the CIA sponsered American Attack of the Cuban Government

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    This was the closest the world ever came toa nuclear war.

  • China explodes the first atomic bomb

    Ignited the bomb to show what kind of weapons they had and the use of scare tactic

  • U.S. deploys troops to the Dominican Republic

    Troops were deployed to Santo Domingo.

  • Troops sent to South Vietnam

    Troops were sent to train the South Vietnamese Army.

  • Soviet Red Army crushes Czeck uprising

    Lead to crack down on reformist trends in Prague

  • Richard Nixon Visits China

    Nixon visited to china to meet with Chinas Leader

  • Woodstock festival

    The Greatest Music festival of all time