Conflict and tension

• Feb 1945


  Yalta Conference
• July 1945


  Potsdam Conference
• March 1947


  The Truman Doctrine
• June 1947


  Marshall Plan
• 1949


  USSR developed first atomic bomb
• June 1948


  Berlin Blockade
• February 1950


  Treaty of Friendship
• April 1949


  NATO
• October 1949


  China becomes communist
• June 1950


  Korean War begins
• November 1952


  Eisenhower elected US president
• March 1953


  Stalin dies
• July 1953


  Korean War ends
• May 1955

  Warsaw Pact
• January 1959


  Castros revolution
• Nov 1960


  JFK elected president
• April 1961


  Bay of Pigs
• October 1962


  Cuban missile crisis
• August 1963


  Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
• Feb 1965


  USA bombs Vietnam
• Nov 1968


  Nixon elected
• November 1969


  SALT1 talks
• May 1972


  SALT1 signed
• Jan 1973


  US Vietnam ceasefire
• Nov 1976


  Carter elected president
• June 1979


  SALT 2
• Feb 1972


  Nixon visits communist china
• 1972


  ABM treaty- antiballistic missile treaty
• October 1962

  JFK sets up EXCOMM
• 1968


  Prague Spring
• Oct 1864


  Brezhnev replaces Khrushchev
• 1957 


  Sputnik created
• 1961


  Yuri Gagarin first man in space
• 1960


  Echo Project - communications satellite launched
• 1969


  Apollo project - men on moon
• 1st may 1960


  U2 Crisis
• 13th August 1961


  Berlin Wall constructed
• 3rd-4th June 1961


  Vienna summit
• 1956


  Hungarian Uprising
• 1952 


  US develops H-Bomb