Cold War poster

6th and 9th August 1945: United States bombs Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 

1947: USSR (Union of Socialist Soviet Republics) and the US (United States) have a squabble over arms without conflict. Stalin deprives Eastern Europe of the Marshall Aid

1948: Berlin Airlift begins after a blockade is implemented.

1949: While USSR's first A (Atomic) bomb goes off, China becomes communist.

1950: Korean War

1952: First H Bomb is exploded by the US

1953: USSR explodes their Hydrogen Bomb

1955: Warsaw Pact created.

1956: While Hungary revolts against the USSR (unsuccessfully),The UK and France stir up trouble in the Suez.

1957: The satellite Sputnik 1 is launched.

1959: Cuba becomes a communist country but their healthcare is good.

1961: Berlin Wall is created.

1962: Cuban Missile Crisis

1963: America increases their involvement in Vietnam by sending more military aid than it did in 1961.

1965: America vs. Vietnam

1967: Six Day War in the Middle East. 

1968: USSR invade Czechoslovakia.

1973: Yom Kippur War

1979: USSR invades Afghanistan.

1986: Gorbachev (USSR) and Reagan (USA) meet in Iceland.

1987: INF Treaty signed

1989: Eastern Europe ditches communism. (pictured, Romanian Revolution)

1990: Germany reunites having spent most of the Cold War divided between Western and Soviet forces at the end of World War 2.

1991: Soviet Union collapses over the Christmas period. The Cold War is over.

"The timeline was amazing !! I have used it with mulitiple Classes." - the secondary school teacher who requested it.