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This post is a comprehensive timeline of the Cold War, from the origins of the Russian-American conflict following World War Two to the final dissolution of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall at the end of the 20th century.
This is a timeline of the main events of the Cold War, a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union, its allies in the Warsaw Pact and later the People's Republic of China).
Timeline of the Cold War. 1945. Defeat of Germany and Japan. February 4-11: Yalta Conference meeting of FDR, Churchill, Stalin - the 'Big Three'. Soviet Union has control of Eastern Europe. The Cold War Begins. May 8:
Here is a simplified Cold War chronology to help understand the order of events between the end of World War Two and the collapse of the Berlin wall, more than 40 years later.
Understand the complete Cold War timeline, starting with the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and tracing events up to the 1991 dissolution of the USSR.
Origins of the Cold War. Following the surrender of Nazi Germany in May 1945 near the close of World War II, the uneasy wartime alliance between the United States and Great Britain on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other began to unravel.
The four decades of the Cold War had many dramatic twists and turns, as well as international incidents. Take a look at a visual Cold War timeline that shows how one pivotal event quickly led to another.
1947 : Marshall Aid to the west of Europe. Stalin of USSR refused it for Eastern Europe. 1948 : start of the Berlin Blockade – ended in 1949. 1949 : NATO established; USSR exploded her first ‘A’-bomb; China becomes communist. 1950 : Korean War started.
Cold War Timeline. From 1945 to 1991, the Cold War dominated international affairs. The global competition between the United States and the Soviet Union took many forms: political, economic, ideological, cultural.
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States and its allies...