Cold War timeline

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  • US, Britain, and Russia had been allies for seven months, from April 1917 until the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in November

  • Bolshevik Revolution in Russia followed by its withdrawal from World War I, Soviet Russia found itself isolated in international diplomacy

  • Lenin's death

  • HITLER’S NAZI PARTY GAINS MAJORITY IN PARLIAMENT

  • COMMUNIST PARTY MAKES GAINS IN GERMANY

  • British P.M. Chamberlain agrees that Hitler can have Czechoslovakia.

  • US and Soviet form allies against azis powers

  • , Germany broke the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union through the territories that the two countries had previously divided

  • Cold War at Pearl Harbor

  • FDR, Stalin and Churchill meet in Iran

  • Soviet Troops now in Poland

  • Greek Communist defeated

  • yalta conference

  • cold war begins

  • Defeat of Japan and Germany

  • Russia declares war on Japan

  • World War II ends in Europe

  • Stalin Hostile Speech

  • Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia

  • Russia tested its first atomic bomb

  • Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt and loyalty tests

  • Korean War begins. Stalin supports North Korea who invade South Korea equipped with Soviet weapons