dates

• Tehran conference

  November 1943
• Yalta conference

  February 1945
• Potsdam conference

  July 1945
• USA drops atomic bomb

  August 1945
• Kennans long telegram

  February 1946
• Churchills ‘iron curtain‘ speech

  March 1946
• Novikov telegram

  September 1946
• Truman doctrine

  March 1947
• Marshall plan

  June 1947
• Formation of cominform (opposite of Truman doctrine)

  September 1947
• Berlin blockade

  June 1948
• Communist government in Poland

  1947
• Communist government in Czechoslovakia

  February 1948
• Comecon established ( opposite of Marshall plan)

  January 1949 ( 2 years from Marshall plan)
• NATO form

  April 1949
• German Democratic Republic established (east)

  October 1949
• Formation of Federal Republic of Germany (west)

  September 1949
• Warsaw pact formed

  May 1955
• Stalin death

  March 1953
• Hungarian uprising

  1956
• Khrushchev new soviet leader, ‘de-stalinisation speech’

  February 1956
• Soviet develops atomic bomb

  1949 (4 years from usa)
• USA test hydrogen bomb

  1952
• Soviet test hydrogen bomb

  1953 ( 1 year from USA)
• USA test ICBM

  1957
• Soviet makes first ICBM launch

  1957
• Berlin Ultimatum (threat to force allies out of Berlin)

  November 1958
• Series of talks to solve the ’Berlin Problem’

  1959 - 1961
• Geneva summit ( no agreement)

  May 1959
• Camp David summit (no agreement, withdrawal of ultimatum)

  September 1959
• Paris summit (spy plane crisis)

  May 1961
• American U-2-Spy plane

  May 1960
• Vienna summit (renewal of Berlin ultimatum, Kennedy new president)

  June 1961
• Construction of Berlin Wall

  August 1961
• Kennedy visit to Berlin

  June 1963
• Bay of pigs invasion

  August 1961
• Thirteen days naval blockade

  16 - 28 October 1962
• Hotline set up

  June 1963
• Test Ban Treaty (no testing nukes in space, water..)

  August 1963
• Outer space treaty (space not to be used for military purposes)

  1967