COLD WAR TIMELINE

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1917

Bolshevik Revolution; Lenin comes to power

1930's - Great Economic Depression

1941

Nazi Germany invades USSR

Pearl Harbor

Grand Alliance formed

1943

'Big Three' meet at Tehran

1945

Feb - Yalta Conference

April - Truman replaces Roosevelt

May - End of WW2

July - USA's successful explosion of an atom bomb

July/Aug - Potsdam Conference

Aug - Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki; End of war with Japan

1946

Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech at Fulton Missouri

Kennan's Long Telegram

Greek Communists launch civil war against Royalists

1947

Truman Doctrine launched

Marshall Plan established

Cominform established

By the end, every state in EEurope controlled by Com government (except Czech)

1948

Communist Coup in Czechoslovakia

Berlin Blockade begins

1949

USA's monopoly on nuclear arms ends

NATO established

Berlin Blockade lifted

Communists take over China

Comecon established

1950

Cold War & Decolonization in full swing

Sino-Soviet Alliance signed

Start of Korean War

NSC-69 accepted

1953

Death of Stalin

Ceasefire agreed in Korea

1955

Warsaw Pact

1918

Woodrow Wilson issues 14 points

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

1919

Comintern established by Bolshevik Russia

1939

WW2 starts

Nazi-Soviet Pact

1944

Naughty Document/Percentages agreement between Churchill and Stalin

1917 - Bolshevik Revolution; Lenin comes to power.

The UK and USA both funded opposition.

1918 - Woodrow Wilson issues 14 points.

Less secrecy, free navigation of the seas, an end to all economic barriers between countries, reduction of weapons, self-determination and the restoration of much of the pre-war order (particularly for Poland), the establishment of a League of Nations.

1918 - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Between Russia & Germany; allowed Lenin to withdraw from WW1 and so focus on internal affairs, albiet at the expense of a large amount of economically valuable land.

1919 - Comintern established by Bolshevik Russia.

Created to fight "by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and for the creation of an international Soviet republic as a transition stage to the complete abolition of the State" - effectively a collective for communist states.

1930's - Great Economic Depression

Longest, deepest and most widespread depression of the 20th century.

1939 - WW2 starts

Beginning of the second world war.

1939 - Nazi-Soviet Pact

Stalin and Hitler; a promise not to go to war with one another, and a secret pact to split Poland.

1941 - Nazi Germany invades USSR

Hitler breaks the Nazi-Soviet Pact and invades Russia

1941 - Grand Alliance formed

Britain, USA & USSR for an alliance against Germany, Italy and Japan.

1941 - Pearl Harbor

Japan attacks USA directly, drawing the country into war and shaking America's self-perceived geographical invulnerability.

1943 - Teheran Conference

Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin discussed the opening of a second front (Russia) and the future of Poland (see mindmap).

1944 - Naughty Document/Percentages agreement between Churchill and Stalin

Agreed that E.Europe could be a Soviet sphere of influence - behind Roosevelt's back.

Timeline

1917-1944