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Cold War Timeline
- Early Events
- 1945
Yalta
Conference
Anmerkungen:
- -Stalin Churchill Roosevelt
- Personal relationship still strong enough to make some significant agreements
- Main source of disagreement was over Poland
Agreements reached:
-Establishing of UN
-Division of Germany, Berlin and Austria into zones of occupation
- The principle of free elections in East Europe
- The setting of the borders of post-war Poland so that substantial areas were given to USSR
- 1945
Potsdam Conference
Anmerkungen:
- Stalin Truman Churchill
- Truman new anti- comm president
-Churchill replaced whilst conference was happening by Attlee
Marked severe cooling in relations - no significant agreements made
- 6 August 1945
Atomic bomb dropped
on Hiroshima
- 5 March 1946
Churchill Iron Curtain
Speech at Fulton
- 1946 Baruch
Plan Failed
- March 1947
Truman Doctrine
Launched
- June 1947
Marshall Plan
Established
- February 1948
Communist Coup in
Czech
- June 1948
Berlin Blockade
begins
- April 1949
NATO set up
- August 1949 -
USSR tests
atomic bom
- Feb 1950
Sino-Soviet
Alliance signed
- 25 June 1950
Korean War Begins
- Nov 1952 - US tests
Hydrogen bomb
- 5 March 1953
Death of Stalin
- 1953-1960
- 27 July 1953 End
of Korean War
- July 1954
Geneva
Agreement on
Indochina
- September 1954
1st Taiwan Straits Crisis
develops
- 1954 Khrushchev's
first visit to China
- 1955 USA first intercontinental bombers
- May 1955
Warsaw Pact set
up
- July 1955 - Geneva Summit
(Khrushchev and Eisenhower)
- Feb 1956 - Khrushchev's secret speech
- 1956 USSR first TU20 bear
(intercontinental bomber)
- November 1956
Soviet troops invade
Hungary
- Sputnik 1957
- Nov 1957 Eisenhower
warned of Missile Gap
- 1958 Khrushchev criticises Great Leap Forwar
- 1958 2nd Berlin Crisis
- August 1958
2nd Taiwan
Straits Crisis
- June 1959 Sino-Soviet
agreement on atomic
cooperation cancelled
- May 1960 U2 spy
plane incident
- 1959 Cuban Revolution
- 1960-1970
- Jan 1961 JFK becomes president
- 12 April 1961 -
Yuri Gugarin first
man in space
- 17-20 April 1961
Bay of Pigs
Invasion
- June 1961 Vienna Summit -
(Khrushchev and Kennedy)
- August 1961
Berlin Wall erected
- October 1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
- June 1963 Hot Line telephone
link/nuclear test ban treaty
- October 1964 - China
first nuclear bomb test
- August 1968
Soviets invade
Czechoslovakia
- March 1969 Sino-Soviet Border
clashes at Damansky Island
- 1970 - End of Cold War
- Nixon visits China 1972
- May 1972
Salt I agreed
- July 1975 Apollo Soyuz Link up
- August 1975
Helsinki Accords
Signed
- 1979 Salt II signed (Not ratified)
- December 1979 - Soviets
Invade Afghanistan
- December 1980 - Martial Law imposed in
Poland in response to Solidarity
- 1983 SDI launched
- March 1985 - Gorbachev
becomes Soviet Leader
- December 1987 Washington Summit
(Reagan and Gorbachev)
- 1989 - Collapse of communist
regimes in East Europe
- 9 November 1989 -
Berlin Wall Opened
- October 1990 Reunification of Germany
- 25 December 1991 -
End of USSR