The Cold War

• Tehran Conference

  November 1943
• Yalta Conference

  February 1945
• Potsdam conference

  July 1945
• Long Telegram

  1946
• Novikov Telegram

  1946
• Marshall Plan

  1947
• Truman Doctrine

  1947
• Cominform

  1947
• Comecon

  1949
• Berlin Blockade and Airlift

  28th June 1948 - 12th May 1949
• Peak of Airlift

  16th April 1949
• Bizonia formed

  January 1947
• China becomes communist

  1949
• USA atomic bomb

  1945
• USSR atomic bomb

  1949
• USA Hydrogen bomb

  1952
• USSR hydrogen bomb

  1953
• Warsaw Pact

  1955
• NATO

  1949
• Stalin Died

  1953
• Hungarian Uprising

  October 1956
• The Brain Drain

  1949-1961
• 6 month ultimatum

  November 1958
• The Geneva Summit

  May 1959
• Camp David

  September 1959
• Paris Summit

  May 1960
• Vienna Conference

  June 1961
• Berlin Border closed by Khrushchev

  13th August 1961
• Kennedy visits West Germany

  1963
• Castro becomes leader of Cuba

  1959
• USA breaks off diplomatic relations with Cuba

  January 1961
• USA bombed Cuban Airforce

  15th April 1961
• La Brigada 2506 land in Cuba

  17th April 1961
• Ballistic missile bases built in Cuba

  1962
• Cuban missile bases discovered

  14th October 1962
• Naval Blockade around Cuba

  24th October 1962
• USA agree to remove missiles from Turkey if Soviets remove missiles from Cuba

  28th October 1962
• Limited Test Ban Treaty

  August 1963
• Outer Space Treaty

  1968
• Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty

  1968