A chronological list of dates starting from 1945 and ending in 1991, about the origins and duration of the Cold War. Includes which American President...
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Date
Month
4th
February
Year
1945 Yalta Conferenc Conference e
July 6th and August 9th
5th
March
Event
Notes
Before WW2 ended
Potsdam Conference
After the defeat of Germany
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Did not tell Stalin of A-bomb, lead to defeat of japan.
Nuclear Arms Race Begins
Both sides want superiority
1946 Fulton Fulton Speech Speech Soviet Expansion in E. Europe
Soviet make satellite states surrounding them by the 'iron curtain'
S
M
T A
N
Policy to contain Communism
I
Provided 17bn US$ to 16 countries *
N
June
24th
June
1948 Berlin Blockad Blockade e & Airlift
Allies had to fly supplies in to W. Berlin, did not want to let Stalin have it. It lasted 11 months. (12th May 1949) (318 days)
4th
April
1949 1949 NATO NATO
Countries vow to protect eachother if they are invaded North Atlanic Treaty Organization
25th
June
1950 195 0 Korean Korean War War
US feels obliged to help S Korea because of Truman Doctrine
27th
U
L
5th
March
R
Ex Prime Minister Churchills speech about the Iron Curtain to the US.
1947 Truman Truman Doctrine Doctrine Marshall Plan
5th
T
K
1951
O
1952
R
1953 Death of Stalin Stalin
July
1954
E
Khrushchev heads USSR
Wanted to improve East/West relations
I
Peaceful co-existence
Slight thawing of the Cold War
S
Eisenhower President
Was voted in because the USA wanted to end the Korean War
E
K
Korean War ends
Ends in a cease fire
N A
H
E
1955 Warsaw Pact 4th
November 1956 Hungarian Uprising
Like NATO but for East Europe Hungarians want to leave the Warsaw Pact, USSR invades to control them.
1957 1958 1959 Castro takes over Cuba 1st
May
1960 U2 spy plane incident
20th
January
1961 JFK is president
13th
22nd
22th
C
U
April
Bay of Pigs
August
Berlin Wall
Khrushchev stops the brain drain from the East.
Vietnam War
Communists v. Capitalists in Vietnam
October
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
August
1963 Test Ban treaty
November
B
F
A
K V
Lyndon B Johnson is President 1964 Brezhev Comes into power
J
L I More communist and tyranic than Khruschev B E
B
1965
J T
R
1966
N
E
1967
A
Z
1968 Brezhev Doctrine
A doctrine stating Brezhevs rules
M
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 20th
August
20th
January
E
Czechoslovakian revolution 1969 Nuclear Arms Race Ends President Nixon
Both sides have nuclear weapons Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty
1970 SALT I 1971 1972 USA withdraws January
Using Vietnamization
1973 Vietnam War Ends 1974 1975 Helsinki Agreements on Human rights 1976 1977 1978 1979 SALT II
25th
H
December
Afghanistan War 1980 1981 Ronald Reagan becomes president of the USA 1982 Leaders of the USSR 1983 Starwars and Grenada 1984
82 - Brezhnev, 83 - Andropov, 84 - Chernenko
N I X O
V
1985 Mikhail Gorbachev 1986 INF Treaty 1987 1988 1989 The collapse Hungary Poland Czechoslovakia East Germany December
Brings in his views and reforms
Opens border to Austria and claims independence Lech Walesa and Solidarity win, and in December of 1990 Lech is President. Havel takes over after the Velvet revolution Honecker is forced to resign and the communist Government resigns a few days afterwards because the East Germans rip down check points and flood into Austria and West Germany Gorbachev and President Bush meet
