cold war event dates

february 1945

yalta conference

july/ august 1945

potsdam conference

6th august

hiroshima

9th august

nagasaki

22nd february 1946

the long telegram

6th march 1946

iron curtain speech

september 1946

novikov telegram

march 1947

truman doctrine

april 1948

marshall aid

1947

cominform

1949

comecon

24th june 1948

berlin blockade begins

12th may 1949

berlin blockade lifted

june 1948

trizonia and deutschmark formed

1949

nato formed

1955

warsaw pact formed

1950-53

korean war

1955-75

vietnam war

february 1950

treaty of friendship

1953

stalin dies

september 1949

nsc-68

1957

ussr make first intercontinental ballistic missiles

july 1969

usa get first man on the moon- Neil armstrong

november 1952

usa create first hydrogen bomb

august 1949

ussr test their first atomic bomb

october 1957

ussr launch sputnik

1959

nuclear disarmament campaigns

february 1956

khrushchev’s secret speech

october- november 1956

hungarian uprising

may 1960

u2 crisis

october 1961

standoff at checkpoint charlie

june 1963

ich bin ein berliner speech

13th august 1961

berlin wall built

1959

cuban revolution

april 1961

bay of pigs

october 1962

cuban missile crisis

1963

khrushchev removed from power

1968

prague springs

1967

outer space treaty

1968

nuclear non-proliferation treaty

1972

strategic arms limitations talks I

1975

Helsinki conference

1979

salt II