Cold war timeline

• 1945 Yalta conference (Feb) - Allied leaders (Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin) meet to discuss post - war europe
• 1945 Potsdam conference (July - August) - Divisions over Germany and Post war order became apparent
• 1946 iron curtain speech ( March) - Winston Churchill speaks about an 'iron curtain' descending across Europe
• 1946 Long Telegram (Feb) - George Kennan's influential analysis of Soviet policy
• 1947 Truman Doctrine (March) - U.S policy to support nations resisting in communist aggression
• 1947 Marshall plan (June) - Economic aid to rebuild Western Europe and prevent the spread of communism
• 1948 Berlin Airlift (June 1948 - May 1949) - Soviet blockade of West Berlin; allies respond with an airlift
• 1948 Formation of Deutsche Mark (June) - Contributed to the Berlin blockade
• 1949 formation of NATO (April) - North Atlantic treaty organisation established as a defence against Societ aggression
• 1949 Soviet Union tests first atomic bombs (August) - Ending U.S monopoly on nuclear weapons
• 1950 - 53 - Korean war - Proxy conflict between the U.S and Soviet Union on the Korean Peninsula
• 1953 Death of Stalin (March) - Leads to a brief thaw in U.S Soviet relations
• 1955 Warsaw pact (May) - Response by Eastern bloc to NATO
• 1956 Hungarian uprising (Oct - Nov) - Soviet suppression of anti - communist protests in Hungary
• 1959 Cuban revolution (January) - Fidel Castro comes to power, leading to the establishment of a communist state in Cuba
• 1961 Berlin Wall (August) - Elected by East Germany to stop the flow of people to West Berlin
• 1962 Cuban Missile crisis (Oct) - U.S and Soviet Union come close to nuclear conflict over Soviet missiles in Cuba