Cold War Time
Timeline of the cold war 1945 defeat of germany and japan february 4 11.
Cold war time. The cold war begins. Yalta conference meeting of fdr churchill stalin the big three soviet union has control of eastern europe. The cold war rivalry between the united states and the soviet union lasted for decades and resulted in anti communist suspicions and international incidents that led the two superpowers to the. 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.
The cold war was a period of geopolitical tension between the soviet union and the united states and their respective allies the eastern bloc and the western bloc after world war ii the period is generally considered to span the 1947 truman doctrine to the 1991 dissolution of the soviet union the term cold is used because there was no large scale fighting directly between the two. Alternatively watch this nine minute explainer video for an overview of the cold war.