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Tehran Conference
December 1949
Yalta Conference
February 1945
Potsdam Conference
July - August 1945
Atomic bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki
August 6th and 9th 1945
Romania falls to communism
1945
Hungary falls to communism
1947
Poland falls to communism
1947
Czechoslovakia falls to communism
1948
Yugoslavia falls to communism
1948
Iron Curtain Speech in Fulton, Missouri
5 March 1946
Novikov Telegram
September 1946
Long telegram
February 1946
Truman Doctrine
12th March 1947
Marshall plan
June 1947
Cominform
1947
Comecon
1949
bizonia formed
January 1947
trizonia formed
March 1948
Deutschmark (new currency)
23rd of June 1948
Berlin Blockade
24th June 1948 - 12th May 1949
Berlin airlift begins
June 26th 1948
NATO formed
April 1949
Warsaw pact formed
May 1955
West Germany allowed to join NATO
1955
US first hydrogen bomb
November 1952
USSR tests the first hydrogen bomb
August 1953
USSR develops first ICBM
May 1957
Sputnik (USSR satellite)
4th october 1957
Laika the dog
November 1957
Vostok 1 - Yuri Gagarin
12th April 1961
Project Mercury (US launched Alan shepard into space)
5th May 1961
US Apollo 11
20th July 1969 (land on the moon)
Apollo-Soyuz (both US and USSR)
1975
China Civil War
1946-1949
Mao Zedong becomes leader of China
1949
Treaty of Friendship
1950
The korean war
1950-1953
North Korea invades South Korea
June 1950
US send troops to help south korea
July 1950
UN get involved and call for a ceasefire in Korea
July 1950
MacArthur successfully pushes forces back to 38th parallel and went beyond it threatening chinese territory
september 1950
MacArthur fired for calling use of nuclear weapons
April 1951
Korean War Stalemate
July 1951
The Vietnam war
1954-1973
rebels fought the french in vietnam
1950-54
Battle of Bien Dien Phu- French withdraw after defeat
May 1954
Geneva Conference - deciding how to split vietnam
July 1954
Vietcong established
December 1960
Kennedy becomes president
January 1961
Diem murdered by rebels
2nd of November 1963
JFK Assassination
November 22, 1963
LB Johnson sends troops to Vietnam
March 8, 1965
USA pull out of Vietnam war
1973
Stalin dies
1953 (March 5)
Krushchev destalinization speech
25th Feb 1956
The Hungarian uprising
1956
Peaceful protest where a giant statue of stalin pulled down in Hungary
october 1956
Soviet troops move into budapest
4 November 1956
Nagy executed
June 1958
US and USSR agreed to speak about berlin at Geneva
1955
USSR finally recognised the Federal republic of germany as a state
1955
almost 4 million people had fled to West Germany by ________
1961
Berlin Ultimatum
1958
Camp David conference (where Khrushchev visits US for the first time)
1959
Paris Peace Summit (Khrushchev stormed out after Eisenhower refused to apologise for U2
14th may 1960
Kennedy wins election
1960
Kennedy becomes president
1961
U2 crisis- Gary Powers plane shot down by USSR
1 May 1960
Vienna conference (Kennedy and Khrushchev)
1961
Berlin wall
13th August 1961
Checkpoint Charlie standoff
27th October 1961
Fidel castro begins guerilla war
1956
Fidel Castro becomes leader of Cuba
1959
USA sever diplomatic relations with Cuba
1961
Bay of Pigs
April 1961
Castro publicly announces that Cuba is communist
1961
Kennedy is informed of Khrushchev's plan to place nuclear weapons in Cuba due to U2 spy planes spotting missile bases there
16th October 1962
Kennedy imposes naval blockade around Cuba
20th Oct 1962
Kennedy publicly declares the blockade and calls on Khrushchev to remove his ships, DEFCON 3
22nd Oct 1962
Khrushchev sends a letter to kennedy saying he will break the blockade and the USSR issues statement that they are prepared to launch nuclear weapons if America goes to war, UN calls for compromise and US lowers to DEFCON 2
23rd and 24th Oct 1962
Kennedy asks Khrushchev to remove the missiles
25th Oct 1962
Khrushchev responds saying he will remove the missiles if america does not invade cuba
26th Oct 1962
Khrushchev received intelligence that US are planning on invading Cuba within 24 hours
27th Oct 1962
Krushchev propses a deal: the USSR will withdraw missiles from Cuba if the US agree to never invade Cuba and withdraw their missiles from Turkey
27th Oct 1962
•Kennedy accepts Khrushchev's deal as long as the removal of turkish missiles is kept secret
27 October 1962
•Khrushchev accepts the deal
28th Oct 1962
hotline established between moscow and washington
June 1963
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
August 1963
Khrushchev forced to resign
1964
France leaves NATO
1966
Nuclear non-proliferation treaty
1968
Leonid Brezhnev comes into power
1964
Novotny resigns and Dubcek becomes leader of Czechoslovakia
January 1968
Dubcek's Reforms in Czechoslovakia including 'socialism with a human face'
April 1968
Tito visits Prague triggering the US
August 1968
SALT 1 Treaty
1972
Helinski Conference
1975
Brezhnev Doctrine
1968
End of Korean War
July 1953
Percentages Agreement
9 October 1944
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