cold war datess

aug 1939

nazi-soviet pact

1938

allies allowed hitler to take over parts of czech w/o consulting stalin

aug 1945

atomic bomb (kept secret from stalin until last second)

1920 US

isolationism (leaves league of nations)

14th aug 1941

atlantic charter - principles to govern post-war world

until 1944

delay of second front

28th nov-1st dec 1943

tehran

• dismemberment of germany

• agreed on second front

feb 1945

yalta

• germany in 4 zones

• US (roosevelt) - help in japan by SU

• UK (churchill) - democratic goverment in europe (spec. poland)

• SU (stalin)- soviet sphere of influence

july-aug 1945

potsdam

• attlee + truman

• SU felt cheated as only 1/3 german population + even lower % industrial facilities

5th june 1945

berlin declaration

• germany occupied by allies

6 aug 1945

atomic bomb

march 1946

1946

iron curtain speech

keenans long telegram

march 1947

truman doctrine

• $400 mil to greece + turkey

spring 1947

marshall plan

sep 1947

1949

cominform

comecon

jan 1947

bizonia + trizonia

• + introduction to deutshmark

oct + 8th may 1949

east + west germany

25 june 1950

1953

NK invades SK

• mccarthur wanted to use nuclear weapons

• US committed to supporting asian countries

war ends

sep 1954

SEATO

1945, 49, 52, 57, 63

ARMS RACE

1952 US

1956

eisenhower

krushchev

1956

4th nov

hungarian uprising

• nagy proposed new reforms INC LEAVING WARSAW PACT

tanks rolled into budapest 200,000 hungarians killed

nagy asked west for help but no help

by 1958

3 mil east germans crossed to west (low standard of living bc marshall plan)

nov 1958

Khrushchev demands berlin transport controlled by EG

may 1959

geneva

• discussed berlin - NO CONSLUSION

sep 1959

camp david

• SU withdrew Berlin Ultimatum - BETTER RELATIONS

May 1960

U2 incident

june 1961

JFK president

Vienna - reinstated berlin ultimatum

aug 1961

berlin wall built

oct 1961

checkpoint charlie

jan 1959

che guevera + castro overthrew batista

1960-62

bay of pigs

• march 1960 - recruited cuban exiles to invade cuba (1500)

• LED TO castro being closer to SU + US = weak - $5 mil to release exiles

• SU building missile sites in Cuba (oct 1962)

oct 1962

CMC

• 17th - discover missile sites in cuba

• 21 - quarantine in cuba

• 22 - publicised

• 23 - quarantine line drawn back + 1st letter (khrushchev doesnt admit missiles)

• 24 - DEFCON 2

• 25 - excomm proposes to withdraw US missiles turkey if SU withdraws missiles

• 26 - 2nd letter (khrushchev wont remove missiles unless blockade lifted)

• 27 - robert secretly says that US will remove missiles

1963

limited test ban treaty

1968

by 1969

new leader dubcek won respect from SU leader brezhnev

• reforms: PRAGUE SPRING (political freedom, elections, etc) BUT some civilians wanted to leave warsaw

• brezhnev pressured to stop czech by poland leader (gamulka) and EG leader (Ulbricht)

• aug - 500,000 troops invade

dubcek replaced by husak

sep 1968

brezhnevv doctrine

• supress anyone trying to leave warsaw

• condemned by romania + yugoslavia

1967 treaty

1968

outer space

• stopped arms race in space

non proliferation

april 1971

ping pong diplomacy (world table tennis championship)

feb 1972

shanghai communique signed by kissinger + mao

may 1972

SALT 1 - limited no of weapons of US+SU (ABM treaty + Interim treaty - restricted ICBMs)

• BUT US had MIRVS secretly

SALT led to NIxon + brezhnev meeting 1972 + 1973

1972 agreement

basic principles agreement

• rules if nuclear warfare