Cold war

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  • Yalta Confrence

    Yalta Confrence

  • World War II ends in Europe

  • U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

  • Potsdam Conference - Truman - Stalin and British divide up Europe

  • First East European Communist government set up in Albania

  • Communists seize power in Poland

  • Truman Doctrine announced

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    Berlin Airlift

  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established

  • Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb

  • Communists win Chinese Civil War

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    U.S. and other U.N. members fight North Korean forces

  • U.S. sponsored coup overthrows Iranian government

  • U.S. sponsored coup overthrows Iranian government

  • U.S. sponsored coup overthrows Guatemalan government

  • Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) formed

  • Warsaw Pact formed

  • First Summit Meeting between President Dwight Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev

  • Red Army crushes the Hungarian Revolution

  • Soviets launch first man‑made satellite

  • Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba, installs Communist government

  • Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba

  • East Germany builds Berlin Wall

  • Sino‑Soviet Conflict begins

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • China explodes its first atomic bomb

  • U.S. sends troops to the Dominican Republic

  • U.S. commits combat troops to South Vietnam

  • Soviet Red Army crushes Czech Uprising

  • President Richard Nixon visits China

  • U.S. supported coup overthrows Chilean government

  • South Vietnam falls to Communist forces

  • Soviet and Cuban forces help install Communist government in Angola

  • U.S. and China establish diplomatic relations

  • Soviet Red Army invades Afghanistan

  • Polish shipyard workers strike, Solidarity Union formed

  • U.S. invades Grenada

  • Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union, the following year he declares glasnost and perestroika

  • Led by university students, over one million Chinese in Tiananmen Square demand reforms by the Chinese Communist government.

  • Solidarity forms the first post-war non-Communist government in Poland

  • Hungary declares a non-Communist government.

  • East Germany allows unrestricted migration to West Germany

  • Berlin Wall is demolished

  • George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev agree to the reunification of Germany in 1994

  • Hard-line Communists stage unsuccessful coup against Mikhail Gorbachev.

  • The Soviet Union is abolished. Boris Yeltsin becomes President of Russia