Cold War

• Grand Alliance 


  1941
• Tehran Conference


  1943
• Soviet Takeover of Eastern Europe begins


  1944
• US Atomic Bombs


  August 1945
• Yalta Conference


  February 1945
• Potsdam Conference


  July 1945
• Iron Curtain Speech


  5 March 1946
• Long Telegram


  1946
• Novikov Telegram


  1946
• Truman Doctrine


  12 March 1947
• Marshall Plan


  1947
• Cominform


  1947
• Berlin Blockade & airlift


  June 1948
• Soviet Takeover of Eastern Europe complete


  1948
• End of Blockade & airlift


  May 1949
• Comecon


  1949
• Soviet A Bomb


  1949
• China becomes communist


  1949
• US H bomb


  1952
• Soviet H Bomb 


  1953
• Death of Stalin


  1953
• Khrushchev's Secret Speech


  25 February 1956
• Hungarian Uprising 


  1956
• ICBMs (USSR first, then USA)


  1957
• First dog in space (USSR)


  1957
• Khrushchev's Ultimatum


  1958
• Geneva summit


  1958
• Camp David summit


  1959
• Cuban Revolution


  1959
• Paris summit


  May 1960
• U2 incident


  May 1960
• Vienna summit


  1961
• First man in space (USSR)


  1961
• Cuban Missile Crisis


  October 1962
• Hotline 


  1963
• Test Ban Treaty


  1963
• Detente begins


  1963
• Fall of Khrushchev


  1964
• US troops to Vietnam


  1965
• France leaves NATO


  1966