Cold War dates

Tehran Conference

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