Cold War Timeline

The Cold War Timeline

2000's

1970's

1960's

1980's

1940's

1950's

1990's

The Start of Mao's China

Why is this event important?

- Mao helped China rebuild by introducing plans to increase industry and increase the standards of living

- Mao helped form China and his plans and influence helped sustained China to stay communist political wise

Solidarity of Poland

October

The Persian Gulf War

The Division of Germany

The Korean War

Gorbachev Becomes Leader

Fall of The Berlin Wall

The Suez Crisis

The Berlin Wall

Why is this event important?

- Not stopping Saddam Hussein after the war proved to be a mistake because he continued to torture his people

- Made Iraq suffer heavy losses

- It lowered the chances of Iraq producing "weapons of mass destruction"

- It lowered the chances of making the middle east more messy

Why is this event important?

Why is this event important?

- It showed the freedom of communism in Germany

- It also showed the reunification of all Germany

- The fall of the Berlin Wall signify the freedom and the release of human rights to all German people

Why is this event important?

- All the 4 nations wanted a piece of Germany and Berlin and had to be divided by 4

- Berlin was one of the hotspots of the cold war.

- Berlin was mainly divided into West Germany (Allied control) and East Germany (USSR Control)

- As the cold war progress, more important events had taken place in Berlin

- Lots of important events in the cold war was stemmed from the division of Germany and Berlin

Why is this event important?

- The two sides of Korea is still technically at war to this day

- Shows the first major conflict of the cold war

- Prevented North Korea to invade South Korea and rule with communism

- Shows how the Americans contain the communism of North Korea

- Gorbachev later introduced Glasnost and Perestroika plans which lessen the communist influence

- These introduction of plans backfired at Gorbachev because people got a taste of freedom from these plans. This would later help the revolution of the USSR collapse

- Gorbachev's actions during his power led the USSR to collapse

Why is this event important?

- It created a short-term conflict between the US and the USSR

- This was the response of the 3 million East Germans fleeing to West Germany

- The Berlin Wall symbolize the cold war because of the separation of communist East Germany and Western Germany

- Made the USSR extend its influence in the Middle East

- Gave Nasser closer ties to the USSR

- The British and French in the war was replaced by the Americans, and the americans would later be a big factor in the middle east

- The war featured peacekeeping forces from the UN and would be later used in the future

- The Suez canal was really important since it's an important passage way of trade. Blocking this would anger lots of countries

Why is this event important?

- It was the first time when the Soviets did not intervene in the democratization of Poland

- It was the first Soviet-bloc country to declare itself independent from communism

- It is the first Soviet satellite state to become democratic

1990-1991

1950-1953

1955-1956

1961

1945-1949

Early 1980's

1985

1989

1949

1991

Late 1960's-1979

1955-1975

1979-1989

1957

1962

1955

1947

1948

Berlin Blockade And The Ally Airlift

The Space Race

The Warsaw Pact

March

Cuban Missile Crisis

Truman Doctrine

Why is this event important?

- It is one of the events at happened in Berlin

- The Soviets constructed a blockade in Berlin because of the reformation of the currency between the ally powers

- The response of the allies to the blockade was the ally airlift, which sent goods to the west Germany territory.

- It is important because it showed public relations victory for USA and a loss of reputation to Germany

- This is also a result of the NATO formation

Why is this event important?

- This event led to Khrushchev and JFK making a direct line from the White House and the Kremlin

- This led to the agreement to the atmospheric test ban treaty

- This event caused the dismissal of Khrushchev because of his poor actions in the crisis

- This event was the closest thing to WW3 and nuclear attacks between the US and the USSR

Why is this event important?

- When the USSR sent its first orbiting satellite, it scared the US since they had not done anything about space

- The US became scared since the Soviets were now dominant in space and now had to use drastic measures to research and compete with the USSR in space

- The space race showed which of the two countries had the best science and technology regarding space in the cold war

- It is a direct response to the formation of NATO

- Shows communist dominance in Europe

- Is a rival to American Capitalism

Why is this event important?

- The event helped non-communist countries in Europe be relieved from economic problems such as Greece and Turkey

- The Truman Doctrine was the American warning to the threat of communist expansion of Europe

- This event led to the Marshall Plan

Vietnam War

June

The Marshall Plan

The Fall of The USSR

April

The Formation of NATO

Why is this event important?

- The event helped non-communist countries rebuild from the US

- This plan is important because it stopped the westward communist expansion

- This was an economic response to the threat of Soviet Expansion

Why is this event important?

- The American involvement in the war did not show support from other countries

- This war tarnished the US reputation and made the Americans look bad

- Showed that the American military was mentally weak, which made the commonwealth despise this war

- Showed the limitation of American power

- Was the first major American lost since 1812

Why is this event important?

- This event ends the cold war since the USSR collapsed

- This leads to the independence of Ukraine

- After the collapse, Russia replaced the USSR and became democratic politically wise

Why is this event important?

- This pact was originally made for preventing soviet expansion

- It supposed to have a twenty year treaty, but it is still operating today as a safeguard of its member's countries

Détente period

Why is this event important?

- It eased political tensions between the USSR and America

- Talks began during this time and produced the SALT treaty and the Helsinki Accords

- This period taught the superpowers that co-operation was possible while defending their interest

The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

Why is this event important?

- Like the Americans, the Soviets struggled to keep Afghanistan

- Lots of countries did not approve the USSR's move to invade Afghanistan

- It showed that the USSR feared in losing influence of Communism in the region

- The failed attempt contributed to the USSR collapse

By Aj Llego