The Cold War Timeline – Groups of Three - 0607a

Make a dated, annotated, timeline of the following events. Each student must turn in their own copy, although only one of the group's copies will be graded.

Annotation means a quick explanation of the event and it's importance. Some of these events take place over a period of time. In terms of placing them on a timeline, count the starting date of the event as the point at which to place them on the line. This project can be done on either a written timeline or on note cards. If you turn in a note card stack, be sure to put the date of events clearly in the upper right-hand corner of the card.

Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

Berlin Blockade and Airlift

Chinese Cultural Revolution

Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Revolution won by communists

Dien Bien Phu, defeat of the French in Vietnam

Fall of Saigon (end of Vietnam War)

First hydrogen (H-) bomb exploded

First test of an atomic (A-) bomb

Founding of the United Nations

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - Vietnam War (the US one) begins

Iron Curtain speech

Korean War begins

Krushchev becomes premier and denounces Stalinism

Maoist Chinese communists drive out the last Nationalist Chinese - China becomes communist

Marshal Plan

NATO formed

Soviet suppression of Czech revolt

Soviet suppression of Hungarian revolt

Sputnik launched

Tet Offensive

Truman Doctrine

US U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR

US wartime use of first atomic bomb

US-sponsored coup overthrows Mossadegh (Mosaddeq) and places Shah in power in Iran

USSR explodes a hydrogen bomb

USSR explodes an atomic bomb

War over the Suez Canal between France/Britain and Egypt

Warsaw Pact formed

Yugoslavia expelled from the pro-Soviet bloc/alliance