Conflict and Tension between the East and West

1917

Russian Revolution

1941 (2)

Nazi Germany invades USSR; Grand Alliance is formed

1945 (Feb)

Yalta Conference

1945 (July)

US test atomic bomb

1945 (Aug) (3)

Potsdam Conference + Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki + Salami tactics start

1946 (2)

Long Telegram + Iron Curtain Speech

1947 (2)

Truman Doctrine + Cominform

1948

Marshall Plan

1948 (June) (2)

Berlin Blockade and Airlift + Yugoslavia expelled from Cominform for accepting Marshall Aid

1949 (5)

NATO + Comecon + end of Blockade + USSR test atomic bomb + Chinese Revolution

1950 (2)

Korean War + Treaty of Friendship

1952

USSR test hydrogen bomb

1953 (Mar) (2)

Stalin death + Khrushchev becomes leader of USSR

1953 (2)

USSR test hydrogen bomb + end of Korean War

1955 (2)

Warsaw Pact + Start of Vietnam War

1956 (2)

De-Stalinisation begins + Hungarian Uprising

1957

Sputnik launched beginning Space Race

1959

Cuban Revolution

1960 (2)

U2 Spy Plane Crisis + Paris Peace Summit

1961 (3)

USSR have first man in Space + Bay of Pigs + Berlin Wall

1961 (Oct) (2)

Checkpoint Charlie + USSR detonate largest ever bomb

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1963

“Ich bin ein Berliner” speech

1964

Brezhnev replaces Khrushchev

1965

US troops arrive in Vietnam

1968 (4)

Prague Spring + Brezhnev Doctrine + Tet Offensive + Mai Lai Massacre

1969 (2)

US land on moon + SALT begins

1972

SALT I passed