Cold War

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  • 1991 BCE

    1991

    1991
    The year the Truman Doctrine (a U.S. policy pledging to aid nations threatened by Soviet expansionism) was announced, and 1991, the year the Soviet Union collapsed.
  • 1985 BCE

    In1985

    In1985
    In 1985, the USSR began to change its policies.Mikhail Gorbachev came to power.
  • 1980 BCE

    In 1980

    In 1980
    In 1980 Ronald Reagan was elected president of the USA and the period of détente ended.
  • 1979 BCE

    1979

    1979
    They planned more arms limitation but the USA refused to sign the SALT 2 agreement (in 1979) after the soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
  • 1975 BCE

    1975

    1975
    By 1975 Saigon (the South capital) had been captured by the Vietcong.
  • 1973 BCE

    In 1973

    In 1973
    In 1973 a ceasefire was arranged.
  • 1972 BCE

    1972

    1972
    In 1972, the USSR and the USA agreed to limit their nuclear weapons and they signed the strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreement (SALT 1).
  • 1969 BCE

    In 1969

    In 1969
    The offensive resulted in the loss of thousands of American lives (14,000 in 1969),
  • 1967 BCE

    1964 and 1967

    1964 and 1967
    President Johnson was determined to keep South Vietnam communist free, so he increased troop numbers from 23.000 in 1964 to 500.000 in 1967.
  • 1964 BCE

    1964

    1964
    Civil Rights Act was finally passed in 1964.
  • 1964 BCE

    1964 and 1982

    1964 and 1982
    Leonid Brezhnev led the USSR between Khrushchev’s death in 1964 and 1982.
  • 1961 BCE

    1961

    1961
    The Democrat John Fitzgerald Kennedy became the president in 1961 and tensions with the eastern bloc were reduced.
  • 1961 BCE

    In 1961

    In 1961
    Castro began to cooperate with the USSR.In 1961, President Kennedy authorised an invasion of Cuba by rebels trained by the CIA.
  • 1959 BCE

    in 1959

    in 1959
    In 1959, Castro began a guerrilla war and soon marched on Cuba´s capital, Havana, and overthrew the government.
  • 1957 BCE

    In 1957

    In 1957
    Treaty of Rome (25th March 1957). It constituted the creation of the European Economic Community (EEC) or Common Market
  • 1956 BCE

    In 1956

    In 1956
    In 1956, a rebel named Fidel Castro attempted to overthrow the government, but was defeated and forced into exile.
  • 1955 BCE

    1955

    1955
    The Eastern Bloc formed the Warsaw Pact.
  • 1954 BCE

    1954 vietnam

    1954 vietnam
    South East Asia had been controlled by France, but French forces were completely defeated by the North Vietnamese in 1954 (Dien Ben Phu). By the Geneva Agreement of 1954 France withdrew from Indochina, losing their Empire.
  • 1953 BCE

    1953

    1953
    When Stalin died in 1953 he was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev, who began a process of De-Stalinization to fight the abuse of power of cult of personality of the previous leader.
  • 1953 BCE

    1953

    1953
    Truman looked for peace and a cease-fire was agreed on in 1953
  • 1951 BCE

    1951

    1951
    Treaty of Paris (18th April 1951). It involved the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) It was signed by France, Western Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
  • 1950 BCE

    1950

    1950
    The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Robert Schuman, proposed on 9th May 1950 the creation of a common market of coal and steel to avoid rivalries and to be more competent.
  • 1950 BCE

    1950-1953

    1950-1953
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  • 1949 BCE

    1949

    1949
    In 1949 two new states were formed: the German Federal Republic (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic. The frontier between Eastern and Western Europe had been drawn in Berlin.
  • 1949 BCE

    In 1949

    In 1949
    In 1949, the Western Powers formed NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) against the communist threat.
  • 1948 BCE

    In 1948

    In 1948
    In 1948 the USSR and the West disagreed over Berlin.
  • 1948 BCE

    In 1948

    In 1948
    They survived (June 1948 → May 1949) because they could obtain supplies from the outside world by air.
  • 1948 BCE

    1948

    1948
    Benelux Customs Union (1948). It was an agreement that was signed by Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg in order to remove customs and to promote free movement of capital, goods, and workers.
  • 1948 BCE

    1948

    1948
    The USSR controlled Eastern Europe. By 1948, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Albania and Bulgaria had pro-soviet Communist governments controlled by USSR (Stalin).
  • 1947 BCE

    1947

    1947
    The year the Truman Doctrine (a U.S. policy pledging to aid nations threatened by Soviet expansionism)
  • 1946 BCE

    In 1946

    In 1946
    In 1946 that Europe could compete with the USA and the USSR as a leading nation.
  • 1945 BCE

    1945 and 1960

    1945 and 1960
    Between 1945 and 1960 there were many anti-communist measures implemented by the Republican presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight Eisenhower.
  • 1940 BCE

    1940

    1940
    Cuba, which was only 100 miles away from the USA, had been ruled by a military dictator, Batista, since 1940.