History paper 1 key dates timeline

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USA and The Cold War Timeline

1920: The BOOM

End 1929: The Wall Street Crash/ Great Depression

1932: Presidential Election (Roosevelt won Hoover Lost)

1933: First New Deal Passed

1936: Roosevelt elected again

1936 - 1939: Second New Deal (4 acts)

1945: World War II ended

February 1945: Yalta Conference (Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt present)

August 1945: Potsdam Conference (Atlee, Stalin and Truman present)

1946: Churchill's iron curtain speech

1947: Truman Doctrine and Marshall plan

1948: Berlin Blockade

1949: Berlin Airlift and NATO formed

1959: Castro comes to power and other throws Batista

1961: Bay of pigs

1962: Cuban missile crisis

1964: Gulf of Tonkin incident

1965: Operation rolling thunder

1968: Tet offensive and My Lai massacre

1973: US troops pull out of Vietnam.