cold war key dates

very general

Iron Curtain speech

5th march 1946

Greek civil war starts

10th Sept 1947

Marshall plan established

June 1947

Communist coup in Czechoslovakia 

Feb 1948

Berlin Blockade begins

June 1948

NATO established

April 1949

Berlin blockade lifted

May 1949

Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People's Republic of China (PRC). - Communists take over China

October 1st 1949

Soviet-Sino alliance signed

Feb 1950

Start of Korean war

June 25th 1950

Death of Stalin

5th March 1953

Korean war ceasefire

27th July 1953

Geneva agreement on Indochina

July 1954

Taiwan Straits crisis

September 1954

Warsaw pact established

May 1955

Geneva Summit (Khrushchev and Eisenhower)

July 1955

Hungarian revolution

October 23, 1956

Soviet troops invade Hungary

24 October 1956 - Nov 11, 1956

U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR

May 1960

Yuri Gagarin becomes first man in space

12th April 1961

Bay of pigs invasion

17-20th April 1961

Vienna summit (Kennedy and Khrushchev)

June 1961

Berlin Wall built

August 1961

Cuban Missile crisis

Oct 16, 1962 – Oct 29, 1961

(official) start of US involvement in Vietnam war

November 1, 1955

Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia

Aug 20, 1968 – Aug 21, 1968

SALT I

May 1972

Helsinki accords

August 1975

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

December 1979

Martial law declared in Poland

December 1980

South Korean airliner KAL 007 shot down by Soviet air force

Sept 1st 1983

Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader

11th March 1985

Washington Summit (Gorbachev and Reagan)

December 1987

Collapse of Communist regimes in Eastern Europe

Jan-Dec 1989

Berlin wall opened

November 9, 1989

End of USSR

25th Dec 1991