Cold War Dates

Only `dates from the cold war

US drops the Atomic bomb on Japan

August 1945

Korean war

1950-1953

Harry S Truman, 33rd, leadership

1945-1953

Joseph Stalin, Leadership

1927-1953

George Kennan’s “Long Telegram”

Feb 1946

The Truman Doctrine 

March 1947

The European Recovery Programme (Marshall Aid)

1948

“Iron Curtain“ Speech

1946

Official formation of the German Federal Republic (West Germany)

May 1949

The formation of NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation)

April 1949 

Yalta Conference

1945

Potsdam Conference

1945

Berlin Blockade and Airlift

1948 (10 Months)

German Democratic Republic (East Germany)

October 1949

Warsaw Pact

1955

Berlin Wall is built

1961

Creation of the Deutsche Mark

1948

Berlin Wall falls

1989

The USSR exploded it’s first atomic bomb

29 August 1949

Britain and the USA join zones (Bizonia)

Jan 1947

West Germany joins NATO

1955

Nikita Khrushchev, Leadership

1953-1964

John F Kennedy, 35th, Leadership

1961-1963

Franklin D Roosevelt, FDR, 32nd, Leadership

1933-1945

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th, Leadership

1953-1961

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

US sends troops to Vietnam

1965

Moon Landing by US

1969

Reunification of Germany

1990

End of the USSR

1991