Conflicts and Tension between East and West

Cards (29)

  • Feb 1945
    Yalta Conference
  • July 1945
    Potsdam Conference
  • March 1946
    Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
  • March 1947
    The Truman Doctrine
  • June 1947
    Marshall Plan
  • June 1948
    Berlin Blockade
  • April 1949
    NATO
  • August 1949
    USSR tests Atom Bomb
  • October 1949
    East Germany established/ China becomes communist
  • June 1950
    Korean War begins
  • Nov 1952
    Eisenhower elected US president
  • March 1953
    Stalin dies
  • July 1953
    Korean War ends
  • May 1955
    Warsaw Pact
  • Jan 1959
    Castro's Revolution
  • Nov 1960
    JFK elected president
  • April 1961
    Bay of Pigs
  • Oct 1962
    Cuban Missile Crisis
  • August 1963
    Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
  • Feb 1965
    USA bombs Vietnam
  • Nov 1968
    Nixon elected
  • Nov 1969
    SALT talks
  • May 1972
    SALT I signed
  • Jan 1973
    Us Vietnam ceasefire
  • Nov 1976
    Carter elected president
  • June 1979
    SALT 2
  • Nov 1980
    Reagan elected president
  • June 1982
    START talks
  • Nov 1982
    Leonid Brechrev Dies