Canadian history project. The cold war
SOCIAL STUDIES 11
COLD WAR Timeline
For each listed event or person provide a concise definition or explanation that relates to its role in the cold war. The underlined phrases must be explained with some Canadian content .
1945 United Nations –
Igor Gouzenko –
1946 “Iron Curtain” –
1947 Truman Doctrine –
1948 Berlin Blockade –
1949 N.A.T.O –
Mao Tse – Tung
Arms Race
(USSR gets bomb)
1950 Korean War
1950 McCarthyism
(cont.)
1951
1952 CANDU Reactor
1953 Death of Stalin
1954 Vietnam divided
1955 Warsaw Pact
1956 “DeStalinization”
Suez Crisis
Pearson and Peace
Hungary
1957 NORAD
1957 Sputnik 1
(Cont.)
1958
1959 Avro Arrow scrapped
1960 U – 2 Incident
1961 Berlin Wall
1961 Bay of Pigs
Yuri Gagarin
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
1963 Kennedy Assassinated
1964 Tonkin Gulf Resolution
1965
1966
1967
1968 Czechoslovakian “ Prague Spring”
Tet Offensive
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973 U.S. withdraws from Vietnam
1974
1975