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War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union

Created by ejohns01 on Apr 12, 2011

Last updated: 04/19/11 at 02:27 PM

• Dipity Timeline Created
  Apr 12, 2011 2:44 PM

• On the Moon in 1969
  Jul 1969

  The space shuttle was that was taken to the moon was the Apollo 11. Astronauts Neil Armstong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins were the first people to walk on the moon.
  http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11_40th.html

• Cuban Missile Crisis
  Oct 1962

  
  http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/Cuban-Missile-Crisis.aspx

• Berlin Wall
  Aug 1961

  A wall that seperated East Berlin and West Berlin from 1961-1989. It was built by the Communist East German government to prevent its citizens from fleeing to the West.
  http://www.justgermany.org/germany/berlin/explore/berlin-wall.asp

• Bay of Pigs Invasion
  Apr 1961

  Unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban-exiles to invade southern Cuba, with help from the U.S., in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. This was a failure.
  http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/The-Bay-of-Pigs.aspx

• U-2 Incident
  May 1960

  The downing of a U.S. spy plane and capture of its pilot, Francis Gary Powers, by the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960.
  http://www.coldwar.org/articles/60s/u2_incident.asp

• Sputnik 1
  Oct 1957

  An artificial satellite launched into space by the Soviet Union.
  http://www.coldwar.org/articles/50s/sputnik.asp

• Vietnam War
  1955

  The Vietnam War was fought between North and South Vietnam. The United States helped southern Vietnam. This war had a draft that many Americans protested.
  http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war

• Rosenbergs Executions
  Jun 1951

  Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were American Communists who were executed for conspiracy of spying and passing information regarding the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.
  http://www.atomicarchive.com/Bios/Rosenberg.shtml

• The Korean War
  Jun 1950

  The Korean War was a conflict between North Korea and South Korea, lasting from 1950 to 1953, in which the United States, along with other UN countries, fought on a side of the South Koreans and China fought on the side of the North Koreans.
  http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/korean-conflict/

• Mao Zedong: China's Communist Leader
  Sep 1949

  
  http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Mao_Zedong.aspx

• Soviets Explode Atomic Bomb
  Aug 1949

  
  http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviets-explode-atomic-bomb

• NATO
  Jul 1949

  North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten western European countries, the U.S., and Canada.
  http://www.coldwar.org/articles/40s/NorthAtlanticTreatyOrganizationNATO.asp

• Berlin Airlift
  Jun 1948

  327 day operation in which the United States and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union blockaded the city. The blockade ended May 12, 1949
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX49.html

• Marshall Plan
  Jun 1947

  The program, proposed by the Secretary of State George Marshall in 1947, under which the U.S. supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after WWII.
  http://www.marshallfoundation.org/TheMarshallPlan.htm

• The Sinews of Peace "Iron Curtain" Speech
  Mar 1946

  The Iron Curtain Speech took place on March 5, 1946 at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.
  http://history1900s.about.com/library/weekly/aa082400a.htm

• Yalta Conference
  Feb 1945

  The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea on February 11, 1945. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was there for the United States, Winston Churchill from the United Kingdom, and Joseph Stalin from the Soviet Union. Ths gathering was to discuss Europe's postwar reorganization.
  http://school.eb.com.proxy.elm4you.org/comptons/article-9384884?query=Yalta%20Conference&ct=ebi