History Cold War Dates

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date of the yalta conference

February 1945

Potsdam conference

July 1945

American first successful attempt of a nuclear bomb

21st July 1945

bomb ‘little boy’ dropped in Hiroshima

6th august 1945

second bomb (Fat Man) dropped in Nagasaki

9th August 1945

Japan surrendered

14th August 1945

Stalin’s speech accusing USA of using bomb to establish new empire

Feb 1946

soviets developed their own bomb; beginning of nuclear arms race

1949

elections of countries under USSR; All votes communist which was suspicious

1945-47

Czechoslovakia fell, completing Soviet buffer zone

Feb/Mar 1948

Greece- Civil war

1946-47

‘Iron Curtain’ and Greece

1946

Fulton Missouri speech

March 1946

Truman speech to US congress

12 March 1947

congress approves Marshall plan

31 March 1948

Cominform - communist information bureau

1947

comecon- council for mutual economic assistance

1949

NATO established

1949

Warsaw pact

May 1955

Khrushchev becomes leader

1955

World leaders met to discuss trade, arms race and disarmament

1955

Poland and Czechoslovakia revolt and reforms

June 1956

Hungarian demonstrations and protests

Oct-Nov 1956

Red Army returned to Hungary and killed 30,000

4 Nov 1956

c. 2 million fled from East Berlin to West

1962

Khrushchev launched ‘sputnik’

1957

Berlin blockade

1948-49

Paris Summit

1960

Vienna summit

June 1961

Berlin Wall built

13th August 1961

Dubcek and the Prague Spring

1968

Brezhnev Doctrine

3rd August 1968

400,000 Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia

August 20th 1968

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed

August 1965

Nuclear Non Proliferation treaty

1968

USA first orbit of the moon

1968

Neil Armstrong first man on the moon

21st July 1969

Korean War

1950-1953

NK invaded SK

25th June 1950

USA sent troops to support SK

July 1950

UN forces almost pushed back communists to the Yalu River on Chinese border

October 1950

China invaded Korea and drove UN forces back below 38th parallel

October 1950

Communists drives back to 38th parallel (Korean War)

June 1951

Armistice signed at Panmunjom on the 38th parallel - left Korea divided

July 1953

Cuban Missile Crisis - Castro forced to trade with USSR

1960

Castro declared himself a communist

Dec 1961

The Bay Of Pigs

1961

medium range nuclear weapons and bomber planes arrived in Cuba

August- Sept 1962

US spy planes photographed Soviet launch pads in Cuba

14 Oct

Cuba- Soviet ships encountered US ones

24th October 1962

Khrushchev sent two letters to JFK

26th and 27th Oct (1962)

the USSR agreed to remove its missiles from Cuba

Sunday 28th October (1962)

US naval blockade finished - Cuba

20th Nov (1962)

a ‘hotline’ was established between Moscow and Washington

July 1963

period of detente begins (result of Cuba)

1963-1979

Vietnam War

1965-1973

Vietcong launched massive counter offensive

Jan 1968

Nixon became President

1969

(Vietnam War) Peace Treaty signed in Paris

1973

Muslim Rebellion begins

1975

Muslim uprising in Afghanistan

March 1979

Soviets invaded Afghanistan

25 December 1979

(US reaction to soviet invasion of Afghanistan) Operation Cyclone

1981-1987

(War in Afghanistan) Soviets defeated

1982

Mikhail Gorbachev new USSR leader

1988

President Reagan

1981-1989

Reagan’s Anti-Soviet policy: ‘Evil Empire’

1983

Us scientists working on Strategic Defense Initiative-‘Star Wars’

1983

end of start wars due to INF Treaty (all short and medium range weapons in Europe to be destroyed) signed my USA and USSR

1987

Soviet troops left Afghanistan

1989

Warsaw Pact dissolved

July 1991

the fall of the Berlin Wall

9th-10th November 1989

ideological War Islam v Western Democracy

1991-2003

The Gulf War

1990-1991

Invasion of Iraq

2003

Saddam Hussein captured

2006