cold war dates 1945 - 1972

yalta conference

1945

potsdam conference

1945

A - bomb

1945

iron curtain speech

1946

long telegram

1946

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marshall plan

1947

Korean war begins

1950

Eisenhower becomes president

1953

korean war ends

1953

vietnam split at the 17th parallel

1954

Khrushchev = leader of USSR

1955

Warsaw pact

1955

start of the space race - sputnik 1

1957

explorer 1 launched

1958

L.B. Johnson made president

1963

Brechnev = leader of USSR

1964

Dubcek = president of Czecheslovakia

1968

brechnev doctrine

1968

nixon = president of the USA

1968

nuclear non proliferation treaty

1968

salt 1

1971

salt 2

1972