A WORLD DIVIDED

By nrosasn

  • 1940

    1940
    Cuba had been ruled by a military dictator, Batista, since 1940

  • 1945-1960

    1945-1960
    There were many anti-communist measures implemented by the Republican presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight Eisenhower

  • 1946

    1946
    The British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, suggested that Europe could compete with the USA and the USSR as a leading nation

  • 1947

    1947
    The year the Truman Doctrine was announced

  • 1948

    1948
    Poland,Hungary,Romania,Czechoslovakia,Albania and Bulgaria had pro-soviet Communist governments controlled by USSR

  • 1948

    1948
    The USSR and the West disagreed over Berlin

  • 1949

    1949
    Two new states were formed: the German Federal Republic (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic.

  • 1949

    1949
    The Western Powers formed NATO

  • 1950

    1950
    Robert Schuman proposed the creation of a common market of coal and steel to avoid rivalries and to be more competent.

  • 1953

    1953
    Stalin died in 1953 and he was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev

  • 1953

    1953
    Truman looked for peace and a cease-fire was agreed on in 1953.

  • 1954

    1954
    South East Asia had been controlled by France, but French forces were completely defeated by the North Vietnamese

  • 1954

    1954
    By the Geneva Agreement of 1954 France withdrew from Indochina, losing their Empire.

  • 1955

    1955
    The Eastern Bloc formed the Warsaw Pact

  • 1956

    1956
    Polish workers in Poznan went on strike

  • 1956

    1956
    The people of Budapest protested against the harsh government of Rakosi.

  • 1956

    1956
    A rebel named Fidel Castro attempted to overthrow the government, but was defeated and forced into exile.

  • 1959

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

  • 1961

    1961
    The Democrat John Fitzgerald Kennedy became the president

  • 1961

    1961
    President Kennedy authorised an invasion of Cuba by rebels trained by the CIA.

  • 1961

    1961
    A 30 mile barrier was erected across the city of Berlin dividing the Eastern sector from the West

  • 1962

    1962
    Cuban missile crisis

  • 1964-1982

    1964-1982
    Leonid Brezhnev led the USSR between Khrushchev’s death in 1964 and 1982

  • 1964

    1964
    Civil Rights Act was finally passed.

  • 1968

    1968
    The czech government, led by Dubcek, tried to install its own type of socialism (Socialism with a Human Face)

  • 1972

    1972
    The USSR and the USA agreed to limit their nuclear weapons and they signed the strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreement

  • 1973

    1973
    A ceasefire was arranged.

  • 1975

    1975
    Saigon had been captured by the Vietcong.

  • 1980

    1980
    Ronald Reagan was elected president of the USA and the period of détente ended.

  • 1985

    The USSR began to change its policies

  • 1991

    1991
    The year the Soviet Union collapsed