Cold War Timeline

• Second World War Begins

  1939
• Cominform formed


  1947
• Comecon set up


  1949
• Berlin Wall built


  1961
• President Kennedy visits Berlin

  1963
• Helsinki agreements


  1975
• SALT 2 agreements

  1979
• Warsaw Pact formed


  1955
• Churchill Iron Curtain Speech in Missouri

  1946
• Yalta Conference


  Febuary 1945
• Bay of Pigs incident

  1961
• How many german troops invaded Soviet Union, despite non agression pact

  4 million
• Truman Doctrine


  1947
• Outer Space Treaty


  1967
• NATO set up


  1949
• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 


  1979
• Marshall Plan 


  1947
• Federal Republic of Germany formed


  1949
• Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty


  1968
• Vienna summit

  1961
• Carter Doctrine


  1979
• Novikov telegram


  1946
• Geneva Summit


  1959
• Communist government in Czechoslovakia

  1948
• Grand Alliance formed


  1941
• Camp David summit

  1959
• Hungarian Uprising


  1956
• Tehran conference


  1943
• USA atomic bomb on Japan


  1945
• Potsdam conference


  July-August 1945
• Communist government in Poland

  1947
• Berlin Blockade


  1948
• Kennan long telegram

  1946
• Formation of German Democratic Republic


  1949
• Detente


  1970-1980
• Limited Test Ban Treaty


  1963
• Socialist revolution in Cuba overthrows President Batista


  1959
• Brezhnev Doctrine


  1968
• Warsaw Pact troops invade Prague

  1968
• SALT 1 agreement

  1972