Cold War

• The Tehran conference

  1943
• The Yalta conference

  1945
• The Potsdam conference

  1945
• Churchill's Iron Curtain speech

  1946
• The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan

  1947
• The Berlin Blockade


  1948
• The creation of NATO

  1949
• The formation of Soviet East Germany

  1949
• The creation of the Warsaw Pact

  1955
• The Hungarian Uprising


  1956
• Khrushchev's Berlin Ultimatum


  1958
• The Cuban Revolution


  1959
• The Bay of Pigs Incident


  1961
• Building of the Berlin Wall

  1961
• The Cuban Missile Crisis

  1962
• Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

  1963
• The Outer Space Treaty

  1967
• Basic Cold

  1968
• The Prague Spring

  1968
• Start of Detente

  1970
• SALT I (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty)

  1972
• The Helsinki Accords

  1975
• Basic Cold

  1978
• SALT II


  1979
• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan


  1979
• US boycott of Moscow Olympics

  1980
• The fall of the Berlin Wall

  1981
• Basic Cold


  1982
• President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)


  1983
• INF Treaty

  1984
• Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of Soviet Union


  1985
• INF Treaty

  1986
• Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty

  1987
• INF Treaty

  1988
• Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan

  1988
• Reunification of Germany

  1990
• End of the Warsaw Pact

  1991
• when was the Yalta conference and what was agreed?


  February 1945

  -Germany and Berlin would be divided into 4u zones, -Germany to pay 20 million reperations (and 1/2 will go to the Soviets)
• what were the consequences of the yalta conference?


  -Showed lack of agreement eg over reparation process

  -showed stalin wanted lots of land
• when was the Tehran Conference and what was agreed?


  -1943

  -USSR could keep land in Eastern Europe if they won the war ( to make Germany weaker)

  -An international organisation would be created

  -USA and Britain launch another attack on Germany so German army would reduce troops in the East