S7.1 History: The Cold War

Russian Civil War after Bolshevik Revolution

1917-1922

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, non-aggression agreement

23.08.39

Start WW2, invasion PO

01.09.39

Operation Barbarossa starts

22.06.1941

Atlantic charter, UK/US doc outlining goals for post WW2

14.08.41

Normandy landings

06.06.44

Yalta Conference

04.-11.02.1945, Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt

WW2 end in Europe

08.05.45

US's first successful A-bomb test

16.07.1945

Potsdam Conference

17.07-02.08.1945, Attlee, Stalin, Truman

WW2 end

02.09.45

UN formed

24.10.1945, 51 countries, 5 security council (Ru, Ch, UK, US, Fr)

Fulton speech

05.03.46

"Bizonia," UK/US joined zones

01.01.47

Truman Doctrine, speech to Congress

12.03.47

GC Marshall goes to EU, 17 countries

June 47

Zhdanov doctrine, meeting in PO w all communist parties

22.09.47

CHZ turns comm, coup d'état

25.02.48

Economic Recovery Act of 1948, 17 countries

03.04.48

London Conference, UK/US planning FRG

March 48

FRG announced

01.06.48

Deutschemark introduced

20.06.48

OEEC (Org for Eu Eco Coop), 18 Marshall members

16.04.48

Berlin blockade starts

24.06.48

Berlin airlift starts

26.06.48

Republic of SK est, Syngman Rhee, capitalist

15.08.48

People's Democratic Republic of K (NK), Kim Il Sung, comm

09.09.48

COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Foundation), 6 members

25.01.49

Berlin blockade/airlift ends

12.05.49

FRG formed under Adenauer and Huess

23.05.49

GDR formed under Pieck

07.10.49

NATO, 12 founding

04.04.49

People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong

01.10.49

Korean War starts, NK troops invade SK

25.06.50

US troops arrive

August 50

Chinese Ppls volunteer army enters war

19.10.50

Cuban Revolution begins

26.07.53

Korean War ends, ceasefire signed

27.07.1953

Warsaw Pact, 8 founding

14.05.55

Vietnam War begins

01.11.55

"Secret speech," Khrushchev denounces Stalin

25.02.56

Khrushchev speech, relaunching Berlin question

10.11.58

Cuban Revolution ends, Batista overthrown

01.01.59

U2-incident, aircraft shot down, forbidden spying

01.05.60

Paris summit, Khrushchev walks out because U2

17.05.60

Bay of Pigs Invasion, CIA failed attempt to invade and overthrow Castro

17-20.04.61

Vienna Summit, Khrushchev demands withdrawal from West Berlin

04.06.61

Night, barbed wire through Berlin

12/13.08.61

Wall construction complete

22.08.61

Partial nuclear test ban treaty

05.08.62

Cuban missile crisis starts, U2 plane photographs missiles in Cuba

14.10.62

JFK announces naval blockade

22.10.62

Cuban missile crises ends, JFK agrees to remove

28.10.62

Red telephone

30.08.63

NV attacks US torpedo boats Gulf of Tonkin

05.08.64

Operation Rolling Thunder begins, USAF systematic bombing

02.03.65

Alexander Dubcek elected as first secretary of KSC

05.01.68

Tet Offensive, coordinated NV attack

31.01.68

My Lai massacre

16.03.68

Bratislava declaration, 6 signed affirming loyalty to communism

03.08.68

Prague invasion night, 5 Warsaw Pact countries

20-21.08.68

Gustáv Husák new CHZ president

17.04.69

SALT 1

26.05.1972

Paris Peace Accords

27.01.73

Yom Kippur war starts, Egypt and Syria surprise attack, Israel vs Arab states

06.10.73

Oil crisis, OPEC announced oil embargo US Canada Japan NE UK

Oct.73

Yom Kippur war ends, UN brokers ceasefire

25.10.73

End of Vietnam War, fall of Saigon

30.04.75

Helsinki accords, 35 countries

01.08.75

Iranian revolution starts

Jan.78

Oil crisis

1979

Grenada turned socialist, People's Revolutionary Government proclaimed

13.03.79

SALT 2

18.06.79

Hostage crisis begins, 53

04.11.79

Afghanistan begins

24.12.79

Iranian revolution ends, Khomeini comes to power

01.02.79

Operation Eagle Claw

24.04.80

Olympics, boycotted by 65 countries

19.07-03.08.80

Hostages released

20.01.81

SDI announced

23.03.83

US invasion of Grenada, Operation Urgent Fury

25.10.1983

Chernobyl

26.04.86

Iran-Contra Affair leaked, by Mehdi Hashemi

03.11.1986

INF treaty in Reykjavik, eliminating S&L range nuclear weapons

08.12.87

Soviets withdrawal, end war

15.02.89

Poland falls, "solidarity" victory in partially free elections

04.06.89

Hungary falls, Republic of Hungary proclaimed by Mátyás Szűrös

23.10.89

Berlin Wall falls

09.11.89

Bulgaria falls, Zhivkov replaced by Mladenov, who announces free elections

10.11.89

Velvet Revolution, CHZ

17-28.11.89

Romania falls, army goes over to protestors' side and captures dictator

22.12.89

Gorbachev resigns

25.12.91

USSR formally dissolved

31.12.1991

Harry S Truman

1945-53 (2)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

1953-61 (2)

John F Kennedy (nov 22)

1961-1963(0.5)

Lyndon B Johnson

1963-69 (1.5)

Richard Nixon

1969-74 (1.5)

Gerald Ford

1974-77 (0.5)

Jimmy Carter

1977-81 (1)