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Events of the Cold War Era

By seidsamuel

  • The Yalta Conference

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    The Cold War

  • Winston Churchill delivers the "Iron Curtain" Speech

  • Marshal Plan announced

  • Berlin Blockade begins

  • NATO ratified

  • Berlin Blockade ends

  • Mao Tse-Tung takes control of China as a communist leader

  • Soviet Union explodes first atomic bomb

  • Joe McCarthy begins his hunts for communists

  • Korean War begins

  • Korean War ends

  • CIA aids in overthrow of regimes in Iran and Guatemala

  • Vietnam splits at the 17th parallel

  • Sputnik launched into orbit

  • Fidel Castro and the communist party take over Cuba

  • Soviet Union reveals United States spy plan shot down over Soviet Territory

  • Bay of Pigs invasion

  • Berlin border closed

  • Berlin Wall construction begins

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Incident at the Gulf of Tonkin

  • dispatch of 150,000 U.S. troops to Vietnam

  • Apollo 11 moonlanding

  • Nixon extends the Vietnam War to Camboia

  • SALT I signed

  • United States participates in overthrow of the government in Chile

  • During Egypt and Syrian attack on Israel, Egypt requests Soviet aid

  • North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam

  • SALT II signed

  • Shah of Iran overthrown

  • U.S. troops overthrow regime in Grenada

  • Iran-Contra Affair

  • Mikhail Gorbachev rises to power in Soviet Union

  • Reagan and Gorbachev agree sign treaty agreeing to removal of medium and short range nuclear missiles

  • Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan

  • Poland becomes independent

  • Hungary becomes independent

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • Commnist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania

  • Lithuania becomes independent

  • Boris Yeltsin elected to presidency of Russia

  • Reunification of Germany

  • End of Soviet Union