cold war timeline :))

WW2 begins

Grand alliance (Britain + USA + Soviet Union)

Germany invades Soviet Union

Tehran Conference

Yalta Conference

Potsdam Conference

USA drops atom bombs

Keenan’s Long Telegram

Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech

Novikov Telegram

Truman Doctrine

marshall plan

first cominform meeting

berlin blockade

comecon established

nato formed

founding of federal republic of germany (west)

german democratic republic (east)

warsaw pact

usa successfully tests hydrogen bomb

eisenhower president

stalin dies

ussr successfully tests hydrogen bomb

west germany joins nato

khrushchev new leader

hungarian uprising

usa launches first ICBM

ussr tests first ICBM

imre nagy (hungary pm) executed

khrushchev berlin ultimatum

geneva summit

camp david summit

u2 crisis (paris summit)

jfk president

vienna summit (berlin ultimatum renewed)

construction of berlin wall

kennedy visits berlin

castro becomes leader of cuba

castro signs agreement with khrushchev

usa breaks diplomatic relations with cuba

bay of pigs

u2 spy plane pictures soviet missiles in cuba

start of ‘thirteen days’

ussr agrees to remove nuclear missiles from cuba if missiles in turkey was removed

hotline

test ban treaty

dubcek !!! becomes leade of czech gov

prague spring

soviet invasion into czechoslovakia

brezhnev doctrine

nixon president

brandt chancellor of west germany

detente

salt 1

helsinki accords

salt 2

ussr invades afghanistan

carter doctrine

olympic boycott

reagan elected

second cold war

brezhnev dies

SDI (star wars)

gorbachev becomes soviet leader

reykjavik summit

intermediate-range nuclear force treaty

moscow summit

fall of berlin wall

gorbachev nobel prize

gorbachev overthrown, soviet union dissolves