Cold War Dates

USSR invaded by Germany

1914, 1941

Tehran Conference

1943

D-day landings

1944

Yalta

February 1945

Potsdam

July 1945

Bombing of Hiroshima, Nagasaki

6,9 August 1945

Chinese civil war restarts

1946

Poland elections; Communist wins

January 1947

US interference in Turkey and Greece

1947

Truman Doctrine

1947

COMINFORM

October 1947

Marshall Plan

1948

Berlin Blockade

1948-49

USSR tests a-bomb

1949

COMECON

January 1949

NATO signed

April 1949

Washington issues NSC-68

September 1949

Mao announces PRC

1 October 1949

Kim invades South Korea

1950

UN forces land at Inchon

September 1950

Mao sends 200,000 Chinese troops to Korean War

October 1950

US tests H-bomb

1952

Castro’s failed revolution

1953

Ceasefire for Korean War

July 1953

USSR tests H-bomb

August 1953

West Germany allowed to re-arm and join NATO

1955

Warsaw Pact

1955

Red Army withdraws from Austria; becomes independent, neutral state

1955

Secret Speech

February 1956

COMINFORM dissolved

1956

Sputnik

October 1957

Hungarian Uprising

October-November 1956

Collapse of Batista’s regime

January 1959

Yuri Gagarin

April 1961

Bay of Pigs

April 1961

Berlin Wall

August 1961

US embargo on Cuba

February 1962

US blockades Cuba; U2 spyplane; submarine bombarded

October 1962

Kennedy speech in West Berlin

1963

Partial Test Ban Treaty

1963

Dubcek replaces Novotny

January 1968

Prague Spring

August 1968

Moon landing

July 1969

SALT1 talks begin

1969

Apollo-Soyuz mission

1975