Cold war Timeline

1. Cold war Timeline

2. Chinese Civil War • 1946. • Chinese Civil War resumed between Communist and Nationalist forces. • The communist side won and lead to China being closer to USSR’s side. • The war represented an ideological split Left vs. Right. • The Communist side won. Putting more stress on the Cold war.

3. I chose this because it added stress on the Americans and it made Russia a more powerful country and showed that Communism was catching.

5. NATO • The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is founded by Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States. • April 4, 1949.

6. NATO created sides. It showed the sides to the public. The Americans VS the Russians.

8. 2nd Nuclear Power • August 29 1949. • Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb. The Soviet Union becomes the world's second nuclear power. • This creates the tension between the US and the USSR. The Arms race had began.

9. Added tension to cold war. Stress. Paranoia. A fear of atomic war. Spies. Arms race.

11. Chinese Soviet Pact • February 16 1950. • The Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China sign a pact of mutual defense. • This benefits USSR for trade and protection.

12. The Soviets took sides with the Chinese making them powerful allies and combined a powerful adversary.

14. UN engages North Korea in combat • June 25 1950 • North Korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War. • June 30 1950. • The mistake of appeasement in the 1930’s would not be repeated. • The United Nations votes to send forces to Korea to aid South Korea. • July 41950. • United Nations forces engage North Korean forces for the first time. They fail to stop the North Korean advance, and the UN retreats south. • November 15 1950 • After seizing North Koreas capital the UN pushed forward. • United Nations forces approach the Yalu River. In response, China intervenes in Korea with a 500,000 strong army. This offensive forces the United Nations back towards South Korea. • July 27 1953 • An armistice agreement ends fighting in the Korean War

15. Showed that the UN was prepared to act. • Was essentially a battle between soviets and Americans. They supplied the warring country with arms and technology but didn’t face each other physically.

17. Korean War armistice • July 27 1953 • An armistice agreement ends fighting in the Korean War • United States suffered 36,516 deaths along with during the Korean War and 8,176 missing in action. • South Korea reported some 373,599 civilian and 137,899 military deaths. • Western sources estimate the PVA suffered about 400,000 casualties while the KPA suffered 215,000 killed.

18. End to a conflict. • America was somewhat successful. • The Chinese took sides with North Korea.

20. Vietnam War • Starting in November, 1, 1955, the US starting sending military advisors to assist the South Vietnamese Army. • Eventually leading to the US sending troops to the depleting South Vietnamese army. • The Soviets supported the North Vietnamese while the US supported the South Vietnamese. It was a battle between Democracy and Communism. • 19 years, 5 months, 4 weeks and 1 day.

21. Another conflict between USSR and US. Not physically but behind the scenes. Supplying arms, etc..

23. The Warsaw pact • May 14 1955 • The Warsaw Pact is founded in Eastern Europe and includes East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union. It acts as the Communist military counterpart to NATO.

24. The counter to the NATO. • Creating teams publically.

26. Russia challenges the U.S • November 15 1957 • Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev claims that the Soviet Union has missile superiority over the United States and challenges America to a missile "shooting match" to prove his assertion.

27. A conflict seemed to be closing in. • The Russians were confident in their odds.

29. Russia leads in space technology • November 3: Sputnik 2 was launched, with the first living being on board, Laika. • This started a space race between USA and USSR. More Competition between the adversaries.

30. Space race. • More competition between USSR and US. • More tensions.

32. USA destroys relations with Cuba • Relations between the United States and Cuba had been steadily declining since Castro seized power in early 1959. • Cuban leader Castro begins trading with Soviets. • U.S. officials were soon convinced that Castro's government was too anti-American to be trusted. • January 3 1961 • Dwight D. Eisenhower closes the U.S. embassy in Havana and severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.

33. Turns Cuba into a communist country. • They side with USSR • Leads to Cuba missile crisis. • Puts a Russian base very close to American soil.

35. Cuban missile crisis • October 16 1962 • The Soviets secretly installed military bases, armed with nuclear weapons. Within 90 miles from the US. • Kennedy orders a naval blockade of the island that intensifies the crisis and brings the US and the USSR to the brink of nuclear war. • In the end, both sides reach a compromise. • The Soviets agree to withdraw their nuclear missiles from Cuba, in exchange the US must withdraw American missiles from Turkey.

36. It was the closest that the countries had been to Nuclear war. • A sign that war was dying down and that neither country wanted conflict.

38. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks • May 26 1972 • Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) agreement signals the beginning of détente between the U.S. and USSR.

39. More signs that the war was slowing. • showed that both countries knew the arms race couldn’t last much longer before they ran each others economies to the ground without even seeing each other in combat.

41. North Vietnam wins • 1974 April 30. • After the US pulled out of Vietnam the South Vietnamese were overrun by the NVA. • North Vietnam wins the war in South Vietnam. The South Vietnam regime falls with the surrender of Saigon and the two countries are united under a Communist government. • American war crimes: Over 800 alleged US atrocities were investigated but only 23 soldiers were ever convicted on charges and most served sentences of less than a year.

42. Vietnam becomes a communist country. • Americans had to back out. • Signs that communism could be catching. • Paranoia • Loss of confidence in America. • A end to the American deaths in Vietnam. • No more young men would be sent into the cruel unbearable situations of the Vietnam war.

44. Beginning of the End to the Cold War • 1989 December 3 • At the end of the Malta Summit, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush declare that a long-lasting era of peace has begun. Many observers regard this summit as the official beginning of the end of the Cold War.

45. USSR couldn’t continue in the arms race. • A end was near, and countries were starving because of their competition. • Communism wasn’t working in the USSR.

47. Communism Fails in USSR • 1991 December 25. • Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the USSR. The hammer and sickle is lowered for the last time over the Kremlin.

48. Showed that Capitalism was superior. • The thought of an Ideal Communist country will never work because everyone has gotten a taste of ownership, greed, and money. • Until we can get this feeling, belief and instinct out of the human mind true communism will not work.

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