cold war

key dates

russia stops fighting with allies in ww1 (y)

1917

red scare (r)

1920s

russian rev (y)

1917

nazi-soviet pact (y)

1939

operation barbarossa (y)

1941

allies defeat nazis in ww2 (y)

1945

tehran conf (m)

dec 1943

percentages agreement (m)

oct 1944

yalta conf (m)

feb 1945

potsdam conf (m)

jul 1945

hiroshima & nagasaki (m)

aug 1945

kennan’s long telegram (d)

22 feb 1946

iron curtain speech (d)

6 mar 1946

truman doctrine speech (m)

mar 1947

cominform (m)

oct 1947

marshall plan (d)

3 apr 1948

yugoslavia issues (y)

1948

comecon (m)

jan 1949

mini-blockade (m)

apr 1948

full blockade (d)

24 jun 1948

airlift (d)

26 jun 1948 → 12 may 1949

easter parade (d)

15 apr 1949

fdr (m)

may 1949

gdr (m)

oct 1949

nato (m)

apr 1949

warsaw pact (d)

14 may 1955

mao zedong turns china communist (d)

1 oct 1949

treaty of friendship (d)

14 feb 1950

us increases funding to japan (y)

1949-50

national security council resolution 68 (m)

sept 1949

korean war (y)

1950-53

kim asks stalin to help invade (y)

1949

stalin agrees to help but no troops (y)

1950

us asks un to call for ceasefire (d)

25-27 jun 1950

us lands in inchon, drives nk to 38th parallel (m)

sept 1950

chinese troops take seoul (m)

oct 1950

general macarthur dismissed (m)

apr 1951

stalemate (m)

july 1951 to july 1953

ceasefire agreed (m)

july 1953

vietnam war (y/m)

1969-1975 (us pull out mar 1973)

minh declares independece from france + establishes dem. republic of vietnam (y)

1945

france withdraws from france/battle of dien phu (y)

1954

vietnam temporarly split in 2 (m)

jul 1954

domino theory (r)

early 1950s

eisenhower’s new look (m)

oct 1953

vietcong established (m)

dec 1960

kennedy sends advisors and experts to south vietnam (m)

may 1960

assassination of diem (d)

2 nov 1963

assassination of kennedy (d)

22 nov 1963

gulf of tonkin incident (m)

aug 1964

johnson orders full us involvement in vietnam (m)

aug 1964

agreement to dramatically increase strength of nato forces (y)

1952

year from which usa & britain had nukes (y)

1952

year from which france had nukes (y)

1960

sputnik (d)

4 oct 1957

first animal in space, ussr (d)

3 nov 1957

fist comms satellite, us (d)

18 dec 1958

yuri gagarin (d)

12 apr 1961

first successful american space flight (d)

5 may 1961

kennedy announces americans on moon by end of decade (d)

25 may 1961

valentina tereshkova (m)

jun 1963

armstrong (m)

jul 1969

first human-crewed space station, ussr (m)

apr 1971

apollo-soyuz (m)

jul 1975

fist soviet a bomb (m)

aug 1949

american h bomb (y)

1952

soviet h bomb (m)

aug 1953

americans had nukes from land, sea, and air + polaris [sub] (y)

1960

‘ban the bomb’/ campaign for nuclear disarmament (r)

from 1950’s

year from which mátyáas rákosi was leader (y)

1949

stalin’s death (m)

feb 1956

hungarian uprising start (d)

23 oct 1956

khrushchev orders withdrawal of soviet troops from hungary (d)

29-31 oct 1956

nagy withdraws from warsaw pact (d)

1 nov 1956

soviet tanks re-enter hungary d)

4 nov 1956

un discuss hungary, ussr vetoes vote (d)

4 nov 1956

u2 crisis (d)

1 may 1960

paris peace summit (m)

may 1960

senator mccarthy leads campaign to root out communism in usa (r)

1950s

house un-american activities committee investigate people supposedly linked to comm. (r)

1950’s

alger hiss passed secrets to ussr (y)

1950

thousands crossing into west berlin across border every day (y)

1961

vienna summit (m)

june 1961

berlin wall (d)

13 aug 1961 to 9 nov 1989

kennedy becomes president (m)

jan 1961

checkpoint charlie (m)

oct 1961

ich bin ein berliner (m)

jun 1963

batista’s rule (y)

1933-1959

castro returns to cuba, begins 2yr guerrilla war (y)

1956

batista’s gov collapses/castro declares new cuba (d)

1 jan 1959

bay of pigs invasion (m)

apr 1961

cmc (d)

14 to 27 oct 1962

first nukes arrive in cuba (r)

1962 summer

us realises nukes in cuba (d)

14 oct 1962

blockade of cuba (d)

21 oct 1962

us put on defcon 3 (d)

22 oct 1962

soviet ships approach cuba w more missiles (d)

23 oct 1962

u thant calls for compromise (d)

24 oct 1962

us put on defcon 2 (d)

24 oct 1962

soviet oil tanker enters quarantine zone (d)

25 oct