Cold War Key Dates (1945-1991)

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January 1945
Most Eastern European states are liberated by the Soviet Union
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4-11th February 1945
Yalta Conference
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Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill
The leaders of the USSR, USA and the UK at Yalta
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April 1945
Roosevelt dies.
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May 1945
WWII ends in Europe.
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July 1945
Attlee becomes PM and the USA gains atomic weapons.
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17 July-1 August 1945
Potsdam conference
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Stalin, Truman, Attlee
The leaders of the USSR, USA and UK at Potsdam
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August 1945
USA drops two atomic bombs on Japan.
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September 1945
Japan surrenders
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22nd February 1946
Kennan's 'Long Telegram' is sent.
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6th March 1946
Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech.
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June 1946
Communists win in Polish elections.
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October 1946
Communists win in Bulgarian elections (75% popular vote).
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November 1946
Communists win in Romanian elections (80% of the votes).
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The Greek Civil War
The event that influenced Truman to implement financial aid to European nations rebuilding after the war (the Truman Doctrine).
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January 1947
British and US zones in Germany merge to form Bizonia.
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12th March 1947
Truman Doctrine announced.
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March-April 1947
The Moscow Conference
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June 1947
The Marshall Plan is announced by George Marshall.
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February 1948
A new currency is introduced to the Western zones of Germany.
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February-June 1948
The London Conference of Western powers
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June 1948
Communists gain control of Czechoslovakia.
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7th June 1948
The Deutsche Mark was introduced to the Western Zones of Germany and West Berlin. The West Germans are given permission to create a new constitution.
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June 1948
The London Conference decided that Germany should have its own Constituent Assembly.
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September 1948
Cominfrom created.
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24 June 1948-12 May 1949
The Berlin Blockade
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August 1949
The Soviet Union gains the A-Bomb
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September 1949
NSC-68 is approved for recommendation
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November 1949
FRG joins the Council of Europe
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Andrei Zhdanov
Created the Zhdanov Doctrine as he viewed the world in two separate camps: communist and capitalist.
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Boleslaw Bierut
Replaced Wladyslaw Gomulka as Polish deputy prime minister in 1948
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Dean G. Acheson
Assistant Secretary of State (1941-1949) and Secretary of State (1949-1953)
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Edvard Beneš
Czech president in 1946 but resigned in June 1948, leaving pro-Moscow communists in control.
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January 1950
Defensive Perimeter Strategy
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January 1950
Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury after passing on information to the USSR whilst working for the US State Department.
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February 1950
China forms a military alliance with the USSR
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February 1950
Stalin promises to provide North Korea with weapons indirectly.
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April 1950
NSC-68 is presented and implemented.
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25th June 1950
The Korean War starts when the North attacks the South.
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27th June 1950
The USA sends troops to aid South Korea through the UN.
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October 1950
Forces from China help North Korea in the war.
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November 1950
China officially enters into war against South Korea.
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Security Council 1950
The USSR boycotted them and as a result, did not have a say in whether troops were sent to Korea or not.
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45
General Douglas MacArthur
Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers (SCAP) implements the Defensive Perimeter Strategy
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PRC
People's Republic of China (1949)
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Kim Il-Sung
Leader of North Korea
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Syngman Rhee
Leader of South Korea
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Jiang Jieshi
Leader of Taiwan
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Mao Zedong
Leader of the PRC
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Joseph Dodge
Economic advisor to SCAP
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'Super balanced budget'
Scheme for Japan to get a surplus of 157 million yen ($4 million).
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GATT
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
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April 1951
MacArthur is dismissed as SCAP by Truman.
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March 1951
The Rosenbergs were executed after being charged as communists.
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June 1951
Peace is first proposed between North and South Korea.
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September 1951
The San Francisco Peace Treaty
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January 1953
Eisenhower becomes President.
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March 1953
Stalin dies.
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March 1953
Khrushchev becomes the leader of the USSR.
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July 1953
A final peace agreement in Korea is reached.
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Panmunjom Armistice Agreement
  1. A demilitarised zone of 2km on either side of the 38th Parallel.

  2. All military forces should withdraw to their territory.

  3. The repatriation of prisoners should begin.

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October 1953
NSC 182/2 is presented.
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5 million deaths (10% of the pre-war population), 40,000 American deaths and 100,000 wounded.
The effects of the Korean War.
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Joseph McCarthy
An American Republican senator between the years 1947 and 1957.
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McCarthysim
Anti-communist sentiment and fears grew within America, leading to incredibly extreme reactions towards anyone perceived of being left wing.
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Created in 1938 and made permanent in 1945.
The House of Un-American Activities Commission
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January 1954
Dulles announces the 'massive retaliation' strategy.
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July 1954
The Geneva Conference
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Eisenhower and Khrushchev
The leaders of the USA and the USSR at the Geneva Conference.
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September 1954
SEATO established.
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John Foster Dulles
Secretary of State under Eisenhower
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The Viet Minh
A nationalist, communist military force in Vietnam.
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Ho Chi Minh
Leader of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
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Dien Bien Phu
A huge military defeat for France in Indochina
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Ngo Dinh Diem
Leader of the Republic of Vietnam.
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17th parallel
Where Vietnam was divided at the Geneva Conference in 1954.
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January 1955
The North decides to use revolutionary action to unite Vietnam
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May 1955
West Germany joins NATO and the Warsaw Pact is set up, and Austrian State Treaty
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May-July 1955
Geneva Summit
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August 1955
Diem refuses to hold elections for reunification
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1955
Hallstein Doctrine
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February 1956
Khrushchev's secret speech
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June-October 1956
The Polish Rising
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August 1956
Collectivisation was underway in North Vietnam and agricultural production increased, however, 1 million refugees fled to South Vietnam
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October-November 1956
The Hungarian Rising, 4000 Hungarian citizens were killed and 20,000 went into self-imposed exile.
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1956
6000 people were killed in North Vietnam during a military revolt
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May 1957
The USSR developed the first ICBM
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October 1957
Sputnik is launched
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November 1957
The Gaither Report is commisioned
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November 1958
The Berlin Ultimatum
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January 1959
Batista is overthrown by Castro
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September 1959
Khrushchev visits Camp David
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February 1960
Anastas Mikoyan, a Soviet Politburo member, offers Cuba economic and military aide.
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1st May 1960
Power's U2 Spy Plane is shot down
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May 1960
The Paris Summit
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June 1961
Kennedy and Khrushchev meet in Vienna
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July 1960
Castro promises to spread revolution across Central and Southern America
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January 1961
John F. Kennedy is president
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April 1961
The Bay of Pigs fiasco, Kennedy's first major failure
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