Cold War Timeline Project

By jennif721lu

  • An iron curtain descends across Europe

    An iron curtain descends across Europe

  • Berlin Airlift occurs and Czechoslovakia becomes the last Eastern European country to become Communist

  • Creation of East and West Germany

    Creation of East and West Germany

  • China comes to the aid of North Korea and forces UN troops to retreat

  • North Korea invades South Korea

    North Korea invades South Korea

  • The Korean War ends with a cease fire and Korea remains divided at the 38th parallel and Stalin, leader of Soviet Union, dies

  • The French lose the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and decide to pull out of Indochina

  • Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet Premier and Austria reunifies under the condition they remain neutral in the Cold War

  • Soviets crush a revolt in Hungry while the West does nothing.

  • Sputnik is launched

    Sputnik is launched

  • American and U-2 spy plane is shot down by the Soviet Union.

  • Construction begins on the Berlin Wall & the Bay of Pigs Invasion occurs

  • Cuban Missile Crisis occurs

    Cuban Missile Crisis occurs

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Incident occurs and the United States' Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and Leonid Brezhnev becomes the leader of the Soviet Union

  • President Lyndon B. Jonhson sent the first 60,000 ground troops to Vietnam

  • Tet Offensive occurs

    Tet Offensive occurs

  • Détente begins

    Détente begins

  • United States and North Vietnam agree to a cease fire

  • The last combat troops leave South Vietnam and the nation falls to Communist North Vietnam

  • Soviet-Afghan War begins

    Soviet-Afghan War begins

  • Josip Broz Tito, president of Yugoslavia, dies and Lech Walesa establishes the Soildarity Movement in Poland

  • Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the leader of the Soviet Union

  • The Soviet Union withdraws troops from Afghanistan, Romanian uprising ousts Nicholae Ceausescu and his wife, and the U.S.S.R. allows the dismantling of the Berlin Wall.

  • Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania declare their independence and East and West Germany reunite under Chancellor Helmut Kohl

  • Soviet republics of Ukraine, Georgia, America, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan declare independence and Gorbachev resigns and Boris Yeltsin becomes the first president of Russia

  • Czechoslovakia becomes the Czech Republic and Slovakia