Cold War Timeline by Alexa Munguia https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf en-us 2022-06-28 14:24:27 UTC 2025-04-03 16:36:20 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/2604.png July 1945 Potsdam Conference 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232520268 In Potsdam, there was the Potsdam Conference. Germany, between July 17 and August 2, 1945, to give the three principal Allies time to implement the postwar tranquility while steering clear of the errors of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference The Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States took part.

]]> 2022-06-28 14:29:17 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232520268 1949 Communist Revolution in China 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232526124 Mao proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China, a communist nation, on October 1, 1949. Mao assumed leadership of China's government and possessed nearly total power. When he confiscated land from rich individuals and donated it to peasants, he won the favor of many Chinese people.

]]> 2022-06-28 14:34:26 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232526124 March 1946 Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232527284 During his March 5, 1946, speech in Fulton, Missouri, former British prime minister Winston Churchill emphasized the need of the United States and Britain serving as the guardians of security and stability against the threat posed by Soviet communism, which had lowered a "iron curtain."]]> 2022-06-28 14:35:46 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232527284 1947 Truman Doctrine 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232528468 President Harry S. Truman founded the Truman Doctrine, which states that the United States will offer diplomatic, militarily, and economic support to any democratic nation under attack from internal or external authoritarian forces.]]> 2022-06-28 14:37:06 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232528468 February 1945 Yalta Conference, Soviet Union 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232529511 The leaders of state of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union met in Yalta, also referred as the Crimea Conference, from February 4 to 11, 1945, to address the post-World War I reconstruction of Germany and Europe.

]]> 2022-06-28 14:38:21 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232529511 June 1945 United Nations 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232530281 The United Nations was founded on the principles set forth in its Charter. At the closing of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, it was signed and established on June 26, 1945, in San Francisco, and it went into effect on October 24, 1945.]]> 2022-06-28 14:39:08 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232530281 1947 Marshall Plan 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232530900 The 1948 Economic Recovery Act was signed by President Truman on April 3. It was given the name "Marshall Plan" in honor of Secretary of State George Marshall, who in 1947 suggested that the United States offer financial aid to rebuild postwar Europe's economic infrastructure.

]]> 2022-06-28 14:39:55 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232530900 1949 NATO 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232531219 In order to guarantee collective security against the Soviet Union, the United States, Canada, and a number of Western European countries founded the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949. The United States' first military partnership outside of the Western Hemisphere during peacetime was NATO.]]> 2022-06-28 14:40:20 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232531219 1955 Warsaw Pact 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232531529 The Warsaw Pact gave the participant nations a cohesive military command and the means to gradually tighten Soviet control over them.

]]> 2022-06-28 14:40:45 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232531529 July 1945 A-Bomb tested 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232532415 The Trinity's nuclear test on July 16, 1945, marked the beginning of the so-called Atomic Age. At the Alamogordo Test Range in New Mexico, the first nuclear bomb was ever exploded. The plutonium-based implosion-type bomb, known as the "gadget," produced 19 kilotons and left a crater more than 300 meters wide.

]]> 2022-06-28 14:41:40 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232532415 August 1945 A-Bomb dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232532669 Tens of thousands of citizens were killed, the cities were completely destroyed, and the bombings by the United States of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and August 9, 1945, marked the first time an atomic bomb was used on humans.]]> 2022-06-28 14:42:01 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232532669 1952 Hydrogen Bomb 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232533023 On the Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Marshall Islands, the United States triumphantly detonated "Mike," the very first hydrogen bomb ever.

]]> 2022-06-28 14:42:19 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232533023 June 1948 Berlin Blockade 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232534346 The Berlin Blockade was an endeavor by the Soviet Union in 1948 to restrict access to the American, British, and French sectors of Berlin, which were located inside Russian-occupied East Germany.

]]> 2022-06-28 14:43:46 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232534346 1961 Berlin Wall built 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232534682 Between East and West Berlin, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) started constructing a "Antifascistischer Schutzwall" (German for "anti-fascist bulwark") made of concrete and barbed wire on August 13, 1961.

]]> 2022-06-28 14:44:09 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232534682 June 1950-July 1953 Korean War 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232535111 From 1950 until 1953, North Korea and South Korea engaged in combat. Following border conflicts and revolts in South Korea, North Korea invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, sparking the start of the Korean War.

]]> 2022-06-28 14:44:40 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232535111 1954 SEATO 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232535402 The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, or SEATO, was established in September 1954 by the United States, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Pakistan. The group's goal was to stop communism from spreading over the area.

]]> 2022-06-28 14:45:02 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232535402 1957 Sputnik 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232535763 With the launch of Sputnik, a basketball-sized satellite that became the first artificial object to orbit the Earth, the USSR quickly took the lead in the Cold War's "Space Race." The USSR launched Sputnik on October 4, 1957, making it the first man-made satellite to orbit the planet.

]]> 2022-06-28 14:45:28 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232535763 1961 Bay of Pigs 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232536084 Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution attempted a failed landing operation on Cuba's southwest coast in 1961, which was secretly funded and orchestrated by the United States government.

]]> 2022-06-28 14:45:44 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232536084 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232537268 On October 28, Khrushchev said publicly that Cuban Soviet missiles would be decommissioned and withdrawn the following morning. The naval quarantine persisted after the crisis was resolved but before the Soviet Union decided to withdraw its IL-28 bombers from Cuba and the United States lifted the quarantine on November 20, 1962.

]]> 2022-06-28 14:46:47 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232537268 1961-1975 Vietnam War 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232537895 4,004 combat deaths were reported by the South Vietnamese military forces, more than twice as many as the year before. North Vietnam infiltrated 6,300 people in 1961, mainly migrants from the south who were communists. The Vietnam War, often known as the Second Indochina War or the American War, came to a conclusion in 1975.

]]> 2022-06-28 14:47:29 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232537895 1960 U-2 Spy plane Incident 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232538210 A summit conference between the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France in Paris was called off as a result of the U-2 incident, a conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that started with the shooting down of an American U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union in 1960.

]]> 2022-06-28 14:47:46 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232538210 1979 Invasion of Afghanistan 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232538602 The Communist Party of Afghanistan and the Soviet Army engaged in a nine-year guerrilla war against rebel groups known collectively as the Mujahideen, as well as smaller Marxist-Leninist-Maoist groups, primarily in the Afghan countryside, throughout the 1980s.

]]> 2022-06-28 14:48:14 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232538602 1980 Olympic Boycott 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232539038 One of several acts the United States took to denounce the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was the boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics. Later, the Soviet Union and its allies boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, which were held by the Soviet Union in Moscow in 1980.

]]> 2022-06-28 14:48:37 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232539038 1984 Olympic Boycott 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232539575 Four years after the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow were boycotted under American leadership, the 1984 Summer Olympics were held in Los Angeles.
14 nations and allies from the former Eastern Bloc participated in the boycott, which was started on May 8, 1984, by the Soviet Union.

]]> 2022-06-28 14:49:12 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232539575 1956 Hungarian Uprising and Invasion 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232539816 Hungary's unplanned national revolt, which had started 12 days earlier, was brutally put down on November 4, 1956, by Soviet tanks and troops. Thousands of people died or were injured, and about a quarter of a million Hungarians left the nation.

]]> 2022-06-28 14:49:28 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232539816 1991 Fall of the U.S.S.R. 1054726 https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232540026 The Soviet Union's dissolution(1988–1991) was a process of internal disintegration within the USSR that ended the existence of the nation and the federal government as sovereign states and granted full sovereignty to its constituent republics.]]> 2022-06-28 14:49:46 UTC https://padlet.com/1054726/9mxqev2vvmttidhf/wish/2232540026