Timeline

• 1943

  Tehran Conference
• February 1945

  Yalta Conference
• July 1945

  Potsdam Conference
• 1946

  Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
• 1947

  • Truman Doctrine announced
  • Marshall Plan set up
  • Cominform set up
• 1948

  Berlin Blockade
• 1949

  • COMECON established
  • NATO formed
  • FDR & GDR established
• 1950

  North Korea invaded South Korea
• 1953

  Stalin died
• 1955

  Warsaw Pact formed
• 1956

  Hungarian Uprising
• 1959

  Geneva + Camp David Summits
• 1960

  • Paris Summit
  • U-2 Incident
• 1961

  • Vienna Summit
  • Berlin Wall built
• 1962

  Cuban Missile Crisis
• 1963

  • Hotline between USA & USSR established
  • Limited Test Ban Treaty
• 1968

  • Prague Spring
  • Brezhnev Doctrine announced
  • Nuclear non-proliferation treaty
• 1967

  Outer space treaty
• 1972

  • Nixon visited Beijing & Moscow
  • SALT 1 signed