The Cold War

25/05/1961

Kennedy announces by the end of the decade he will have put a man on the moon

04/10/1957

USSR send the 1st manmade satellite orbit the Earth

03/11/1957

USSR send the 1st animal into space dog called Laika

18/12/1958

USA launch the 1st communications satellite

12/04/1961

USSR send the 1st man into space Yuri Gagarin

05/05/1961

USA send the 1st human crewed spaceship controlled by Alan Shepard

16/06/1963

USSR send the 1st woman into space Valentina Tereshkova

20/07/1964

USA put the 1st man on the moon Neil Armstrong

23/04/1971

USSR 1st human crewed spaceship

15/07/1975

USA and USSR Apollo-Soyuz

06+07/1953

War reaches stalemate
Ceasefire

1949

Kim asks Stalin to help him invade South Korea

06/1950

North Korea invades South Korea

09/1950

USA lands in Inchon drove North Korea back to the 38th parallel

10/1950

China takes Seoul

04/1950

General MacArthur is dismissed for calling nuclear arms

1950

Stalin agrees to send equipment but no troops

1950 (2)

The UN votes to withdraw North Korean soldiers
Send troops to support Rhee's government

1949

NATO formed

Original NATO countries 12

UK, USA, Canada, France, Norway, The Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Luxemburg, Portugal, West Germany

Original Warsaw countries 8

USSR, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Albania, Hungary, Poland, East Germany

Where was NATO held?

1952-USA and UK
1990-France

Where was WP held?

USSR

NATO who had the most power

Collective
USA: maj of funds, fire power, built bases in West Europe

WP who had the most power?

Collective
USSR: fire power, decisions made in Moscow

NATO military

50 divisions (25 active)
1952- strength increased

WP military

175 divisions
35,000 tanks
100,000 aircrafts
5,500,000 personnel

05/04/1948

Soviet and GB plane crashes

04/1948

Mini Blockade

24/04/1948

Full Blockade

12/05/1949

End of Blockade

26/06/1948

400 tonnes/3mins/day

23/05/1949

FDR

15/04/1949

Easter Parade

03/1948

West Berlin unifies
East follows

10/1949

GDR