Cold War Year Revision

• 1945

  Yalta Conference

  Germany Surrenders WWII

  Potsdam Conference

  V-J Day
• 1946


  Kennan's Long Telegram

  Novikov's Telegram

  Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech

  Greek Civil War
• 1947


  Truman Doctrine

  Marshall Plan

  Cominform
• 1948


  Czechoslovakia taken over by USSR

  Berlin Blockade begins
• 1949


  NATO formed

  FRG (Federal Republic or Germany)

  Berlin Blockade ends

  USSR detonates Atomic Bomb

  GDR (German Democratic Republic)

  Fall of China

  McCarthyism (late 40s to early 50s)
• 1950


  Korean War begins

  Sino-Soviet Alliance
• 1951


  Truman fires McArthur as commander in Korea
• 1952


  Eisenhower elected president
• 1953


  Death of Stalin

  Korean War Ends
• 1954


  KGB formed

  Geneva- Vietnam Split at 17th Parallel

  Dien Bien Phu (French loss in Vietnam)

  First Taiwan Straits Crisis
• 1955


  Warsaw Pact

  Vietnam War begins

  Austrian State Treaty

  Geneva Summit

  Hallstein Doctrine
• 1956


  Khrushchev's Secret Speech

  Polish and Hungarian Uprising

  Suez Crisis

  Castro returns to Cuba
• 1957


  Sputnik I and II launched by USSR
• 1958


  USA sends explorer I to space

  Berlin Crisis

  Second Taiwan Straits Crisis

  Great Leap Forward
• 1959


  Camp David Summit

  Cuban Revolution
• 1960


  U-2 spy plane incident

  Paris Summit

  Kennedy elected US president

  Cuba allies with the USSR

  Sino-Soviet Split
• 1961


  Bay of Pigs Invasion

  Berlin Wall constructed

  Operation Mongoose
• 1962


  US involvement in Vietnam increases

  13 days of the Cuban Missile Crisis
• 1963


  Moscow Hotline

  Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

  Buddhist Crisis

  JFK assassination

  Ngo Diem assassination
• 1964


  Brezhnev replaces Khrushchev

  Lyndon B. Johnson elected president

  Gulf of Tonkin

  Malinovsky Incident
• 1965


  Operation Rolling Thunder
• 1966


  France withdraws from NATO

  Chinese Cultural Revolution
• 1967


  US bombs have failed in Vietnam

  
  

  USSR forces in Mongolia and Kazakhstan
• 1968


  Tet Offensive

  My Lai Massacre

  Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

  Nixon elected US president

  Prague Spring

  Czechoslovakia Crisis

  Brezhnev Doctrine
• 1969


  United States lands on the moon

  Death of Eisenhower

  Beginning of Détente
• 1970


  Nixon orders extends Vietnam to Laos and Cambodia
• 1971


  Pentagon Papers

  Ping Pong Diplomacy

  Death of Khrushchev
• 1972


  Nixon visits China

  Watergate

  Death of Truman

  Moscow Summit

  ABM Treaty

  Basic Treaty -FRG recognises GDR

  Basic Principles agreement

  Interim Agreement
• 1973


  Cease-fire agreement in Vietnam

  Egypt and Syria attack Israel - USSR aid

  Death of LBJ

  Shah overthrown, Arab-Israeli War

  US supports Pinochet in Chile
• 1974


  Ford becomes US president

  Vladivostok Summit
• 1975


  Fall of Saigon - end of Vietnam War

  Ford visits China

  Apollo-Soyuz mission

  Cuban-American proxy war in Angola

  Helsinki Accords
• 1976


  Death of Mao Zedong - Den Xiaoping
• 1977


  Carter becomes president

  Soviet ideals emerge in Ethiopia
• 1978


  US recognises China and NOT Taiwan

  Taraki consolidates power in Afghanistan
• 1979


  USSR invade Afghanistan

  End of Détente

  Thatcher becomes Prime Minister

  Iran Hostage Crisis
• 1980


  Ronald Reagan elected
• 1981


  Martial law imposed in Poland
• 1982


  Andropov in power
• 1983


  Strategic Defense Initiative

  KAL 007

  Able Archer Crisis
• 1984


  Chernenko in power