Cold War Dates

Yalta conference

Potsdam conference

Hiroshima bombed

Kennan's long telegram

Iron curtain speech

Baruch Plan failed

Truman Doctrine launched

Marshall Plan

Cominform established

Communist Coup in Czechoslovakia

Berlin Blockade

NATO established

Communists takeover China

NSC-68

Sino-Soviet alliance/ Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance signed

Korean War

USA test hydrogen bomb

Death of Stalin

Eisenhower becomes president and introduces New Look policy

Berlin Rising

Dulles announced massive retaliation

SEATO formed

Geneva Conference

Taiwan Straits Crisis

Khrushchev's first visit to Beijing

USAs first intercontinental bombers

Warsaw Pact established

Geneva Summit

Austrian State Treaty

Peaceful Coexistence

Suez Canal Crisis

USSR first TU20 Bear Intercontinental bomber

Soviets withdraw from Finland

Khrushchev's secret speech

Demonstrations in Poland, Khrushchev agreed to economic reforms

Tanks sent to Hungary to supress demonstration

Hungarian Uprising

Eisenhower Doctrine

Eisenhower warned of missile gap

Sputnik

2nd Berlin Crisis

2nd Taiwan Straits Crisis

CENTO Pact

Khrushchev criticised Great Leap Forward

Cuban Revolution

Camp David Summit and Khrushchev's US visit

Sino-Soviet Agreement on atomic cooperation cancelled

Paris Summit, U2 plane incident

Berlin Wall/ 3rd Berlin Crisis

4th Berlin Crisis

US terminates trade with Cuba

Kennedy becomes US President

Yuri Gagarin 1st man in space

Bay of Pigs

Vienna Summit

Cuban Missile Crisis

Hot line link established

Nuclear Test ban treaty

China 1st Nuclear Bomb Test

First US combat forces in Vietnam

Prague Spring

Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Brezhnev Doctrine

Ussuri river disputes

European Ostopolitik, Berlin Agreement

Ping Pong Diplomacy

SALT 1: Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty and Interim Agreement on Offensive Missiles signed

Basic Principles Agreement signed

Nixon went to a Summit in China, communique issued

Vladivostok Framework agreed upon

President Ford visited China

Helsinki Accords

Jackson-Vanik Amendment

Apollo-Soyuz link up

Official US recognition of PRC, withdrew support from Taiwan

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

SALT II signed

Strike by Solidarity

Martial Law in Poland

SDI/ Star Wars Initiative announced

Gorbachev made it clear he wouldn't enforce the Brezhnev Doctrine

Geneva Summit

Chernobyl Disaster in Ukraine

Reykjavik Summit

Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty

Hungary becomes independent

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Solidarity beat Communist Party in general elections

Vaclav Havel elected president of Czechoslovakia

Ceausescu and his wife were executed

Reunification of Germany

Official recognition of end of Soviet Union

Bankruptcy of USSR declared

Red army decreased from 5.8-3.7 million men

US military spending 12% of GNP

CIA backed coup against left-wing Guatemalan president

Eisenhower's Domino Theory

PRC established

6 fold increase in Sino-Soviet trade

60% of Chinese trade was with USSR

2 more agreements between China and USSR promising more trade, Lushan naval base and further aid including a bigger loan

Khrushchev proposed joint control of China's nuclear weapons

Khrushchev proposed a Pacific atom free zone

Khrushchev's first visit to China, swimming pool photo op

Khrushchev's second visit to China: no guard of honor or microphone, public insults

Khrushchev withdrew economic advisers from China

Mao publicised Khrushchev backing down in the Cuban missile crisis

China had its first nuclear test

No trade or diplomatic links except to get arms to Vietnam

Ma called Soviet system "a product of revisionist traitors"

Khrushchev announced a new doctrine saying the class struggle was over

Sin-Indian border conflict, USSR sent India $800 million in aid

Sino-Indonesian border conflict: Soviet military aid sent to Indonesia

Red Guards crossed Soviet border, Brezhnev posted 15 divisions of the Russian army there

Red Guards occupied island of Damanskii (disputed territory) small-scale fighting broke out, resolution reached when senior ministers from each side agreed to respect borders

Both China and USSR sent military assistance to third world countries

China encouraged Romania and Albania (in soviet sphere of influence) to be more independent

China was number one enemy in US

US was on the verge of a red scare

No trade, diplomatic links or sporting competition between China and US

Kennedy discussed taking advantage of Sino-Soviet split, ruled out due to Vietnam war

China had only 3 real allies: France, Pakistan and Albania

Nixon relaxed trade and travel restrictions with China and initiated a secret dialogue with Mao through Pakistan

China invites US ping pong team to play an international match in China

US backed PRC's entry into UN

Kissinger visited China to secretly arrange for a presidential visit the next year

Dulles refused to shake hands with Zhou Enlai

Trade between China and US increased from $5 million per year to $500 million per year

Us officially recognised PRC

Taiwan expelled from UN security council with US backing

Kissenger visited China but couldn't reach agreements on Taiwan

USSR began to close the missile gap

Point of MAD reached

Vietnam war cost $30 million this year

The post-war boom was coming to an end

Inflation in the US reached 6%

Unemployment in the US rose to more than 5%

End of Bretton Woods currency system, making international trade less stable

Economy of USSR roughly a sixth the size of that of the US

Estimated stockpiles of nuclear warheads: US-28,200 USSR-11,000

Anti-ballistic missile treaty limited each nation to two missile shields each consisting of 100 missiles

Interim agreement on offensive missiles limited stockpiles to: USSR-1618 missile launchers and USA- 1054

Berlin Agreement- guaranteed borders of West Germany

OPEC oil crisis

Return to oil price stability

GDP of USSR 37% that of US

USSR increased imports from West by 96%

US defense spending went from $404 billion to $284 billion

Economic growth in USSR continued to decline despite detente

Brezhnev's 1976 Party Congress speech spoke favorably of Detente

Carter rejected Vladivostok framework; replacing the negotiating team and demanding lower ceilings

Carter jeopardised SALT II talks by announcing a new nuclear project

Grain embargo against USSR