Cold War

• Yalta Conference (Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin)


  February 1945
• End of WW2 in Europe

  May 1945
• Potsdam Conference (Atlee, Stalin and Truman)


  July 1945
• Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki


  August 1945
• End of WW2 in Asia

  September 1945
• Kennan's Long Telegram


  February 1946
• Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech

  March 1946
• Truman Doctrine


  March 1947
• Marshall Plan


  June 1947
• Berlin Blockade/Airlift


  1948 - 1949
• NATO formed


  April 1949
• Berlin Blockade ends


  May 1949
• Federal republic of Germany created


  May 1949
• USSR successfully detonates atomic bomb


  August 1949
• Communist Victory in Chinese Civil War

  October 1949
• German democratic republic (GDR) created


  October 1949
• North Korea invades South Korea

  June 1950
• UN intervention in Korean War

  June 1950
• Chinese intervention in Korean War

  November 1950
• Dwight D. Eisenhower elected President of USA


  November 1952
• Death of Stalin


  March 1953
• Armistice signed regarding Korean War


  July 1953
• Warsaw Pact formed


  May 1955
• Khrushchev consolidates power in USSR

  1956
• Secret Speech (destalinisation)


  February 1956
• Polish Uprising


  June-October 1956
• Hungarian Uprising


  October-November 1956
• Berlin Crisis


  1958
• Fidel Castro takes control of Cuba


  1959
• U-2 Spy Plane Incident


  May 1960
• John F. Kennedy elected president of USA


  November 1960
• Bay of Pigs


  April 1961
• Berlin Wall built


  August 1961
• Cuban Missile Crisis


  October 1962
• Moscow Test Ban Treaty (GB, USSR & USA)


  August 1963
• JFK Assassination and Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president of USA


  November 1963
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution


  August 1964
• China successfully detonates atomic bomb

  October 1964
• Khrushchev resigns; replaced by Brezhnev


  October 1964
• Tet Offensive in the Vietnam war

  January-February 1968