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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
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