History Cold War Dates

date of the yalta conference

Potsdam conference

American first successful attempt of a nuclear bomb

bomb ‘little boy’ dropped in Hiroshima

second bomb (Fat Man) dropped in Nagasaki

Japan surrendered

Stalin’s speech accusing USA of using bomb to establish new empire

soviets developed their own bomb; beginning of nuclear arms race

elections of countries under USSR; All votes communist which was suspicious

Czechoslovakia fell, completing Soviet buffer zone

Greece- Civil war

‘Iron Curtain’ and Greece

Fulton Missouri speech

Truman speech to US congress

congress approves Marshall plan

Cominform - communist information bureau

comecon- council for mutual economic assistance

NATO established

Warsaw pact

Khrushchev becomes leader

World leaders met to discuss trade, arms race and disarmament

Poland and Czechoslovakia revolt and reforms

Hungarian demonstrations and protests

Red Army returned to Hungary and killed 30,000

c. 2 million fled from East Berlin to West

Khrushchev launched ‘sputnik’

Berlin blockade

Paris Summit

Vienna summit

Berlin Wall built

Dubcek and the Prague Spring

Brezhnev Doctrine

400,000 Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed

Nuclear Non Proliferation treaty

USA first orbit of the moon

Neil Armstrong first man on the moon

Korean War

NK invaded SK

USA sent troops to support SK

UN forces almost pushed back communists to the Yalu River on Chinese border

China invaded Korea and drove UN forces back below 38th parallel

Communists drives back to 38th parallel (Korean War)

Armistice signed at Panmunjom on the 38th parallel - left Korea divided

Cuban Missile Crisis - Castro forced to trade with USSR

Castro declared himself a communist

The Bay Of Pigs

medium range nuclear weapons and bomber planes arrived in Cuba

US spy planes photographed Soviet launch pads in Cuba

Cuba- Soviet ships encountered US ones

Khrushchev sent two letters to JFK

the USSR agreed to remove its missiles from Cuba

US naval blockade finished - Cuba

a ‘hotline’ was established between Moscow and Washington

period of detente begins (result of Cuba)

Vietnam War

Vietcong launched massive counter offensive

Nixon became President

(Vietnam War) Peace Treaty signed in Paris

Muslim Rebellion begins

Muslim uprising in Afghanistan

Soviets invaded Afghanistan

(US reaction to soviet invasion of Afghanistan) Operation Cyclone

(War in Afghanistan) Soviets defeated

Mikhail Gorbachev new USSR leader

President Reagan

Reagan’s Anti-Soviet policy: ‘Evil Empire’

Us scientists working on Strategic Defense Initiative-‘Star Wars’

end of start wars due to INF Treaty (all short and medium range weapons in Europe to be destroyed) signed my USA and USSR

Soviet troops left Afghanistan

Warsaw Pact dissolved

the fall of the Berlin Wall

ideological War Islam v Western Democracy

The Gulf War

Invasion of Iraq

Saddam Hussein captured