Dates and Events

• Berlin Blockade : 1948 - 49
• Tehran Conference : 1943
• Yalta Conference : Feb 1945
• Potsdam Conference : July 1945
• USA Atomic Bomb on Japan : 1945
• Long Telegram : Feb 1946
• Novikov Telegram : Sept 1946
• East Europe Buffer Zone created: 1945 - 48
• Cominform : 1947
• Comecom : 1949
• Truman Doctrine : 1947
• USSR test first atomic bomb : 1949
• USA develop first hydrogen bomb : 1952
• USSR develop first hydrogen bomb : 1953
• USA and USSR tested IBCMs : 1957
• Hungarian Uprising : 1956
• Second cold war : 1981 - 85
• Cuban Revolution : 1959
• Bay Of Pigs Incident : 1961
• Cuban Missile Crisis : 1962
• Prague Spring : 1968
• Outer Space Treaty : 1967
• Khrushchvev replaced by Brezchnev : 1964
• Test Ban Treaty : 1963
• Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty : 1968
• Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty : 1987
• Soviet Union began to withdraw from Afghanistan : 1988
• Invasion of Afghanistan : 1979 - 80
• USA boycott of Moscow Olympics : 1980
• SALT 1 : 1972
• Helsinki Records : 1975
• End of Soviet control over Europe : 1989
• End of Cold War : 1989 - 91
• Malta Summit : 1989
• End of Warsaw Pact : 1991
• USSR break up : 1991
• Berlin Ultimatum : 1958
• Berlin Summits : 1959 , 1961
• Building of Berlin Wall : 1961
• Fall of Berlin Wall : Nov 1989