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Cold War- 1945- 1991

By Kirijan2012

  • Beggining of Cold war

    The Yalta Conference meeting of FDR,Churchhill,Stalin - the 'Big Three'
    Soviet Union has control of Eastern Europe and the Cold War Begins . Yalta Conference Feb 4-11 1945.
  • U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

    U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

    The United States drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima (20 kiloton bomb 'Little Boy' kills 80,000).

  • Russia at war with Japan

    Russia declares war on Japan.
  • U.S. drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki

    U.S. drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki

    The United States drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki (22 kiloton 'Fat Man' kills 70,000)

  • Japan surrenders

    Japanese surrender to war with Russia.

  • Truman Doctrine demands Russia to leave Iran

    Truman demands Russia leave Iran.

  • First public demonstration of America's atomic arsenal

    Operation Crossroads with Test Able was the first public demonstration of America's atomic arsenal.

  • Underwater explosion in America.

    America's Test Baker - underwater explosion

  • Truman Doctorine demands active role in Greek civil war.

    Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War.

  • Truman's top secret plan

    Truman's Loyalty Program created to catch Cold War spies.

  • Berlin blockade begins

    Berlin Blockade begins lasting 11 months.

  • Berlin Blockade ends

  • Russia tests a nuclear weapon

    Russia tests a nuclear weapon

    Russia tested its first atomic bomb.

  • Truman approves developemant of a nuclear weapon.

    Truman approved H-bomb development.

  • Federal Civil Defense Administration established

  • Korean war begins!!!!

    Korean war begins!!!!

    Stalin supports North Korea who invade South Korea equipped with Soviet weapons
  • A-bombs developed by Britain

    A-bombs developed by Britain

  • Nuclear Arms Race atomic test series of 11 explosions at Nevada Test Site

    This occured March 17-June 4.

  • Korean war comes to an end

  • KGB established

    CIA helps overthrow unfriendly regimes in Iran and Guatemala.

  • Warsaw Pact formed

  • Suez Crisis begins

    Suez Crisis began with Israeli attack led by Moshe Dayan against Egyptian forces in the Sinai ,gypt took control of Suez Canal.

  • USSR sent tanks into Poznan, Poland

    They did this because to suppress demonstrations by workers.

  • USSR sent military aid to Afghanistan

  • Rebellion put down in Communist Hungary.

  • Vostok rocket launched 1st ICBM

  • Vostok rocket launched 1st ICBM

  • Khrushchev visits United States; The Kitchen Debate

  • Atomic Bombs developed by France

  • Soviet Union reveals U.S. spy plane was attacked

    Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory.

  • Cuba openly aligns itself with the Soviet Union and their policies

  • A- bombs developed by China

  • U.S. Marines sent to Dominican Republic to fight Communism

  • Announcement of dispatching of 200,000 U.S. troops to Vietnam made.

  • B-52s Bomb North Vietnam

  • the truth

    The US Secretary of Defence Robert McNamara admits that the US bombing raids had failed to meet their objectives

  • North Korea captured U.S.S. Pueblo

    President Johnson does not run for the presidency and Richard Nixon Elected President of the USA

  • Soviet Red Army crush Czechoslovakian revolt

  • President Richard Nixon visits China

  • SALT I signed

    Strategic Arms Limitation Talks 1 signed

  • Egypt and Syria attack Israel; Egypt requests Soviet aid

  • North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam which falls to Communist forces

  • Soviet and Cuban forces help to install Communist government in Angola

  • U.S. and China establish diplomatic relations

  • Soviet forces invade Afghanistan

  • President Reagan proposes Strategic Defence Initiative

  • U.S. troops invades and overthrows regime in Grenada

  • Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union

    Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union initiating a campaign of openness called "glasnost" and restructuring called "perestroika"

  • President Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe

  • Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove all medium and short-range nuclear missiles

  • Soviet troops gone from Aghanistan

  • Communist governments collapse

    Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania
    Decline of the Soviet empire

  • End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends