Cold War

By landoneschman

  • Germany Surrenders

  • Yalta Conference

  • Period: to

    Attlee Ministry establishes Welfare State in Great Britain

  • Atomic Bombs Dropped on Japan

  • Japan Surrenders

  • Albert Camus' The Plague

  • Truman Doctrine

  • Marshall Plan to help rebuild Europe instituted

  • Europe divided into Eastern and Western blocs

  • NATO founded

  • East and West Germany divided

  • Period: to

    Korean War

  • French defeat at Dien Bien Phu

  • Warsaw Pact founded

  • Suez Crisis

  • European Economic Community Founded

  • Berlin Wall constructed

  • Cuban Missle Crisis

  • Period: to

    Second Vatican Council

  • Rapid Growth of student population at Universities

  • Student Rebellion in Paris

  • Soviet invasion of Chezchoslovakia

  • Club of Rome Founded

  • Period: to

    Arab oil embargo

  • Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Union

  • Helsinki Accords

  • Paul II becomes Pope

  • Gorbachev comes to power in Soviet Union

  • Revolutions sweep across Eastern Europe

  • New trade relations in Europe after Soviet Union opened up