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