overall timeline

• the Tehran conference was in 1943
• The Yalta conference and the Potsdam conference were in 1945
• In 1946 Churchill made his iron curtain speech in America which talked about the metaphorical divide of Europe
• In 1945 there was also the Novikov telegram and the long telegram
• The Truman doctrine was in 1947, it was political and wanted to stop capitalism
• Marshall Aid was in 1947, it was economic and given to states that adopted capitalism
• In 1947 there was also cominform which was political and comecon which was economical
• the Berlin Blockade was in 1948
• The berlin airlift was in 1949
• stalins death was in 1953
• the warsaw pact happened in 1955
• the hungarian uprising took place in 1956
• the berlin ultimatum was in 1958 which lead to the berlin wall and the brain drain
• the berlin crisis took place in 1959
• the paris summit happened in 1960
• in 1961 there was:

  the vienna summit

  invasion of cuba/bay of pigs

  the berlin wall was built
• the cuban missile crisis took place in 1962
• the limited test ban treat was in 1963
• in 1968 there were 2 new treaties and the prague springs


  the treaties were:

  the NPT treaty

  the outerspace treaty
• in 1970 detente took place as well as the ping pong diplomacy which led to SALT I
• in 1973 breshnev went to washington
• nixon visited moscow in 1974
• in 1975 there were the helsinki agreements and the space linkup
• in 1979 SALT II happened, detente was over and the afghanistan war
• reagen was president in 1983
• in 1985 gorbachev was president of the soviet union and there was glasnost and peristroka
• the fall of the berlin wall took place in 1989
• the collapse of the ussr in 1991