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timeline on cold war

Created by schulzy on Apr 12, 2011

Last updated: 04/18/11 at 03:56 AM

• Dipity Timeline Created
  Apr 12, 2011 11:26 AM

• fall of the berlin wall
  1989

  russian power over berlin ends berlin wall is destroyed

• Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power in russia
  1985

  gorbachev comes to power and starts making huge changes for his country

• apollo 11 lands on the moon
  1969

  usa puts man on moon in (the race for space)!!!

• cuban missile crisis
  Oct 1962

  cuba gets nukes from russia and points them at us

• berlin wall
  Aug 19, 1961

  russia builds wall through berlin

• bay of pigs invasion
  Apr 1961

  the cia unsucsefully invaded cuba

• U2 shot down
  May 1, 1960

  U2 spy plane shot down by russia

• sputnik
  Oct 4, 1957

  russia put the first man made object in space

• fidel castro
  1956

  castro takes over cuba

• the H-bomb
  1955

  we develope bigger bomb than the atomic bomb

• cia helps overthrow guatamala
  1953

  cia turns everyone against there leader abenz
  http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/chimage.php?image=2006/1999/guatemala_usbacked.jpg

• rosenbergs execution
  1953

  julius and ethel rosenberg were executed for spying on the USA for Russia

• berlin airlift
  Jun 24, 1948

  we flew supplies into Berlin because Russia had blockaded west Berlin

• churchill's iron curtain speech
  1946

  churchill gives his speech westminister college on how an iron curtain has spread throug europe