The Cold War

By Rookie_052

  • Yalta Conference

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    The Cold War

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    Yalta Conference

  • Victory in Europe Day

  • Potsdam Conference

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    Potsdam Conference

  • Test Baker, underwater nuclear explosion

  • Atomic Bomb Deployed

  • Victory over Japan Day

  • Stalin's "hostile" speech

  • Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech

  • Stalin responds to Churchill's Speech with Pravda

  • Truman demands Soviets leave Iran

  • Operation Crossroads, Test Able. US first public demonstration of nuclear arsenal

  • Czechoslovakia becomes Communist

  • Truman Doctine announced

  • Marshall Plan announced

  • Rio Pact - US and Latin America countries create security zone around the hemisphere

  • Truman's Loyalty Program created ti catch Cold War spies

  • Brussels Pact organized to protect Europe from Communism

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    Berlin Blockade

  • NATO Ratified

  • Berlin Blockade ends

  • USSR test first Atomic Bomb

  • USSR's first Atomic Weapons test

  • Communist Mao Zedong takes control of Mainland China and establishes the People's Republic of China

  • Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist Government moves to Formosa(Taiwan)

  • Truman approves H-Bomb development

  • Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunts and loyalty tests.

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    Korean War

  • Korean War begins

  • Soviet Pilots secretly deployed over Korea

  • Truman dismisses MacArthur from Command in Korea

  • Federal Civil Defense Administration established

  • The UK developes and tests nuclear weapons

  • US test more atomic weapons in Nevada

  • RAND reports on the "Vulnerability if US Strategic Air Power"

  • The conflict in Korea "ends" in a ceasefire

  • Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace speech

  • Castle Bravo - US tests H-Bomb

  • The KGB is founded

  • Vietnam Splits

  • CIA helps overthrow "unfriendly" regimes in Iran and Guatemala

  • Warsaw Pact formed

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    Vietnam War

  • USSR send tanks into Poznan, Poland, to suppress demonstrations by workers

  • USSR sent military aid to Afghanistan

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    Hungarian Revolution of 1956

  • Suez Crisis begins

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    Suez Crisis

  • Vostok rocket (derive from the R-7 series of ICBMs) launches.

  • Sputnik launched

  • Sputnik II launches - Laika dies in Space

  • Explorer I launched

  • NASA begins Project Mercury

  • Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro

  • Khrushchev visits the US

  • Soviet Union reveals that US Spy Plane was shot down over Soviet Territory.

  • Cuba openly aligns itself with the USSR and their policies

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    Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • The Berlin Crisis of 1961 begins

  • Berlin Border closed

  • Construction of Berlin Wall begins

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis begins

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    Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Nuclear Test Ban signed

  • Gulf of Tonkin incident

  • China begins nuclear tests

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    B-52 bombing of North Vietnam (Operation Rolling Thunder)

  • US intervention in the Dominican Civil War

  • 200'000 US Troops sent to Vietnam

  • North Korea captures USS Pueblo

  • Warsaw Pact invades Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring

  • First Man on Moon

  • Pentagon Papers published

  • US withdraws from Vietnam

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    Nixon visits China

  • SALT I (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) signed

  • Chilean coup d'etat

  • Angolan Civil War begins

  • Iranian Revolution

  • Korean Air Lines Flight 902 shot down

  • The People's Republic of China invades the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

  • SALT II (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreement) signed

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • USSR invades Afghanistan

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    Soviet-Afghan War

  • Korean Air Lines Flight 007 shot down

  • Perestroika introduced in the USSR

  • Glasnost introduced in the USSR

  • 1988 Polish Strikes begin

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • Germany reunites

  • Fall of the USSR

  • Russia becomes Successor State to the USSR in the UN and other UN Branches.