by year

• 1944


  percentages agreement = soviet hunger for expansion
• 1945


  February - Yalta (declaration on liberated Europe, Germany to divided and United Nations planned)

  July - Potsdam (de-nazification and extra reparations for USSR)

  august - bombs dropped in Japan

  end of war deaths -

  USA = 300,000

  USSR = 27 million
• 1946


  february - long telegram

  march - iron curtain

  zhandov doctrine = world in two camps

  June -poland falls and removal of Gomulka

  October - Bulgaria falls 75%

  November - Romania falls 80%

  communism already popular in Romania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia
• 1947


  January - bizonia

  February - Britain pulls out of greek civil war

  march - Truman doctrine

  June - Marshall plan $13.5 billion to 16 countries

  September - cominform created

  reverse course begins in Japan
• 1948


  February - London conference

  march - Truman begins loyalty programme to catch Cold War spies

  June - Deutsche Mark, blockade begins and communist control in Czechoslovakia after Masaryk 'falls out of window' and also Yugoslavia kicked out of Cominform
• 1949


  April - nato formed

  may - blockade ends and FRG under Konrad Adenauer

  august - ussr develops nuclear weapon

  October - GDR

  dodges reverse course - super balanced budget and 4 million surplus and GATT

  and Mao takes over china with in Jiang jieshi in Taiwan

  comecon created
• 1950


  January - strategic defensive perimeter

  February - china and ussr military alliance

  April - nsc-68 (review calling for increased military spending of ($37 billion)

  June - Korean War begins (un forces but fronted by American Macarthur)

  November - china aids North Korea with 300,000 troops

  Joe McCarcthy begins communist witch hunt
• 1951


  January - Korea starts to move towards a stalemate

  march - Rosenburgs convicted

  September - san Francisco peace treaty = unrestricted military access

  June - Korea peace talks begin
• 1952


  USA tests H bomb 2500 times as powerful
• 1953


  January - Eisenhower becomes president

  march - death of Stalin

  April - rand report detailing 'vulnerability' of US air power

  July - end of Korean War

  USSR test H bomb
• 1954


  Austria state treat = real cooperation

  June - Geneva conference (open skies) and Vietnam split at 17th parallel after communist victory at Dien Bien Phi (French war funded 75% by US) and Minh goes on to kill 6000 in land reforms

  September - seato formed

  China and USSR join forces in shelling Taiwan
• 1955


  may - Warsaw pact formed in response to west German entrance into nato

  doctrine of massive retaliation published

  Austria state treaty and Geneva summit = cooperation
• 1956


  February - Khrushchev comes to power and secret speech (destalinisation and peace coexistence (Mao accuses him of revisionism))

  June - USSR send tanks to Poland resulting in acceptance of remaining in Warsaw pact and Gomulka allowed to stay and 80 dead

  31st October - Warsaw tanks sent back into Hungary violently suppressing Nagy's rising and resulting in his execution and 4000 dead

  thaw <333 personal diplomacy
• 1957


  October - sputnik launched by USSR

  November - gather report (missile gap)

  December - flopnik launched by usa
• 1958


  November - Khrushchev issues Berlin ultimatum

  USA tests ICBM

  July - nasa is found
• 1959


  January - Castro takes over from Batista in Cuba (US respond with trade restrictions and refusing to refine cuban oil) ad north Vietnam decide to use revolutionary force to unite Vietnam

  may - north Vietnam begin to develop the Ho Chi Min trail

  September - Khrushchev visits USA at camp David
• 1960


  may - Paris Summit (aimed to sort out the Germany issue) and U2 spy plane

  November - Kennedy elected

  December - cuba openly aligns itself with the USSR (given 100 million dollars in credit but also 14,000 troops plus lots of guns)

  and NLF formed
• 1961


  USSR detonate Tsar bomb (thermonuclear and most powerful ever tested)

  April - bay of pigs fiasco and Yuri Gagarin in space

  august - Berlin Wall erected (after 10,000 leave in 61 and 2.7 million overall)

  may - Kennedy sends helicopters and 400 green berets to Diem

  November - operation mongoose authorised
• 1962


  October

  14th - missiles spotted

  16th - ExComm called (hawks and doves)

  22nd - blockade intiated and missiles announced to American public

  24th - soviet ships turn around before reaching blockade

  26th - Khrushchev promises to remove missiles if blockade is lifted

  27th - Khrushchev also wants missiles removed from Turkey

  28th - agreement reached

  3000 strategic hamlets by end of this year

  USSR refuses to aid china in its short war with India
• 1963


  may - buddhist crisis 8 people killed

  June - hotline established and ich bin ein Berliner speech

  July - nuclear test ban ratified

  November - Kennedy and Diem assassinated

  study shows nuclear war would lead to 93 million deaths
• 1964


  2nd august - gulf of Tonkin incident

  7th august - gulf of Tonkin resolution

  October - China develop an A bomb and Brezhnev comes to power
• 1965


  may - operation rolling thunder

  November - first confrontation at La Drang valley

  July - 200,000 American troops to be sent to Vietnam
• 1967


  US Secretary of State admits bombing raids did not meet objectives
• 1968


  jan-feb - tet offensive 5000 captured and 25,000 dead

  march - Johnson announces he won't stand for re-election

  1968 was the worst ear for casualties with 16,889

  may - Paris peace talks

  July - non - proliferation treaty (not France or china)

  august - Prague spring crushed after Dubcek (January) attempts to begin a mixed economy and implement reforms inspired by the demands of Ota Sik etc 100 die

  November - Brezhnev doctrine announced
• 1969


  July - Apollo 11 lands on the moon

  march - Sino soviet border clashes + operation menu

  Willy Brandt becomes chancellor of west Germany (Ostpolitik)

  543,000 american troops in Vietnam
• 1970


  may - Kent state shootings 4 dead

  arvn troops increased from 82,000 to 1 million
• 1971


  February - operation Lam Son with 30,000 ARVN forced to retreat out of Laos

  four power agreement over Germany under Honecker
• 1972


  February - Nixon visits china

  April - Kissinger secretly visits Moscow

  may - salt 1 ratified (both powers limited to less than 2000 ICBMs each but did not tackle issues of MIRVs or cruise missile systems )

  June - Vietnam decreased to 47,000 troops

  November - US election that slowed down peace talks

  December - basic treaty (peaceful coexistence, avoid situations that build nuclear tension and down't get involved abroad)
• 1973


  January - Paris peace agreement reachedmarch - last US troops withdrawn from Vietnamaugust - bombing ends in cambodiaSeptember - US start to intervene in Chile by supporting the removal of democratically elected Allende in favour of Pinochet
• 1974


  April - Portugal grant Angola independence (but nationalists have too much factionalism so civilm war by 1975 surprisingly us and china bothsupport FNLA)august - Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal and is replaced by FordNovember - vladivostok summit
• 1975


  April - US close embassy and leave South Vietnam and Vietnam is united under communism whilst the Khmer Rouge take power within a week of US forces leaving

  impact of Vietnam war : $167 billion, 250,000 civilians dead and 6 million acres of land destroyed

  august - Helsinki accords

  1 - recognition of borders, aversion to force and human right

  2 - trade and industrial cooperation

  3 - cultural and educational exchange
• 1976


  November - Carter elected president
• 1977


  January - Vladivostok summit (banning making new ICMBS and planning salt 2)
• 1978


  February - colonel Marian sets up Marxist-leninist dictatorship and has the support of USSR and Cuba in Ethiopia (Cuba now have 67000 troops across Ethiopia and Angola)
• 1979


  February - Xiaoping visits US

  June - pope visits Poland and Sandinistas take control in Nicaragua

  December - Soviet's invasion of Afghanistan so salt 2 not ratified
• 1980


  January - Carter announces Carter doctrine

  July - strikes begin in Gdansk shipyards led by Lech Walesa
• 1981


  January - Reagan becomes president

  march - USA begins funding contras in Nicaragua

  December - martial law enforced in Poland
• 1982


  November - Brezhnev dies and replaced by Andropov (gerontocracy era)
• 1983


  march - SDI announced

  October - US invasion of Grenada sending 7000 strong invasion force without telling Thatcher and despite lack of any soviet influence

  September kal007 - 269 die
• 1984


  February - Andropov dies and replaced with Chernenko