history p2 cold war + elizabeth

• WWII begins


  1939
• Germany invades the USSR


  1941
• The Grand Alliance of Britain, America and the USSR came together to fight the Nazis


  1941
• The leaders of the Grand Alliance meet for the first time at the Tehran Conference

  1943
• The Yalta Conference


  1945 - February
• The Potsdam Conference


  1945 - July
• America uses the Atomic Bomb against Japan to end the war


  1945 - August
• The USSR begins taking control of East European 'Satellite States'


  1945
• The Long Telegram, The Novikov Telegram and the Iron Curtain Speech

  1946
• The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan announced


  1947
• Bizonia formed


  1947
• Trizonia formed and the deutschmark was introduced


  1948
• The Berlin Blockade begins

  1948 - June
• The Berlin Airlift begins

  1948 - June
• NATO is formed


  1949 - April
• The Berlin blockade is ended

  1949 - May
• Germany is permanently split into East and West Germany


  1949 - May
• The Warsaw Pact is formed


  1955
• The Hungarian Uprising


  1956
• Khrushchev issues the Berlin Ultimatum


  1958
• The Four Summit Meetings Geneva (1959), Camp David (1959), Paris (1960), Vienna (1961)

  1959 - 1961
• The Cuban Revolution


  1959
• The Bay of Pigs Invasion


  1961
• The Berlin Wall is built

  1961
• The Cuban Missile Crisis

  1962 - October
• A 'hotline' is installed between Moscow and Washington and the Limited Test Ban Treaty


  1963
• The Prague Spring and the Soviet Invasion


  1968
• Brezhnev Doctrine issued


  1968
• SALT 1


  1972
• Helsinki Agreements


  1975
• SALT 2


  1979
• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan


  1979
• Carter Doctrine


  1979
• Moscow Olympics


  1980
• Reagan's 'Evil Empire' Speech

  1983
• Los Angeles Olympics


  1984
• Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the USSR


  1985
• Geneva Summit


  1985
• Reykjavik Summit


  1986
• Fall of the Berlin Wall – Communism ends in Eastern Europe


  1989