U.S HISTORY

the cold war started from a mistrust of the soviet union. they also wanted communism to take over all the world. the cold war wasnt necessarily a war but a war of who had better technology,power, and army

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February 9: Stalin hostile speech - communism & capitalism were incompatible
March 5 : "Sinews of Peace" Iron Curtain Speech by Winston Churchill - "an "iron curtain" has descended on Europe"

March 10 - Truman demands Russia leave Iran

July 1: Operation Crossroads with Test Able was the first public demonstration of America's atomic arsenal

July 25: America's Test Baker - underwater explosion
Containment

Containment
March 12 : Truman Doctrine - Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War

June : Marshall Plan is announced setting a precedent for helping countries combat poverty, disease and malnutrition

September 2 - Rio Pact - U.S. meet 19 Latin American countries and created a security zone around the hemisphere
Cointament

February 25 : Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia

March 2: Truman's Loyalty Program created to catch Cold War spies

March 17: Brussels Pact organized to protect Europe from communism

June 24 : Berlin Blockade begins lasting 11 months

The USA and USSR help aid western Berlin by carrying supplies on planes for almost a year.
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April 4 : NATO ratified

May 12 : Berlin Blockade ends

29 August : Russia tested its first atomic bomb

October 1 : Communist Mao Zedong takes control of China and establishes the People's Republic of China

December 1 - Chiang Kai-shek moved to Formosa and created Nationalist government

January 30 - Truman approved H-bomb development
February : Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt and loyalty tests

June 24: Korean War begins. Stalin supports North Korea who invade South Korea equipped with Soviet weapons

January 12 : Federal Civil Defense Administration established
April 11 - Truman fires MacArthur

A-bomb is developed by Britain

March 17-June 4 Nuclear Arms Race atomic test series of 11 explosions at Nevada Test Site
April 15: RAND report on the "Vulnerability of U. S. Strategic Air Power"

July : Korean War ends

December 8: Ike's Atoms for Peace speech

dwight d. eisenhower becomes president

March 1: H-bomb Castle-Bravo test
March : KGB established

CIA helps overthrow unfriendly regimes in Iran and Guatemala

July : Vietnam split at 17th parallel

May : Warsaw Pact formed

1956 June 29: USSR sent tanks into Poznan, Poland, to suppress demonstrations by workers
September 4: USSR sent military aid to Afghanistan

October - November : Rebellion put down in Communist Hungary.

October 29: Suez Crisis began with Israeli attack led by Moshe Dayan against Egyptian forces in the Sinai

Egypt took control of Suez Canal

1957 August 26: Vostok rocket launched 1st ICBM
October 4 : Sputnik launched into orbit

November 3: Sputnik II launched - Laika died in space

1958 January 31: Explorer I launched
July : NASA began Mercury project using Atlas rocket

November : Khrushchev demands withdrawal of troops from Berlin

1959 January : Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro

September : Khrushchev visits United States; The Kitchen Debate

1960 A-bombs developed by France
May : Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory

November : John F. Kennedy elected President of USA

December 19: Cuba openly aligns itself with the Soviet Union and their policies.

1961 April : Bay of Pigs invasion see Cuban Missile Crisis Timeline

August 13 : Berlin border is closed

August 17 : Construction of Berlin Wall begins

1962 U.S. involvement in Vietnam increases see Vietnam War Timeline
October : Cuban Missile Crisis see Cuban Missile Crisis Timeline

1963 1963: July : Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified

1963: November : President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas

1964 August : Gulf of Tonkin incident - see Vietnam War Timeline
October: A-bombs developed by China

1965 April : U.S. Marines sent to Dominican Republic to fight Communism

July : Announcement of dispatching of 200,000 U.S. troops to Vietnam

president Kennedy is elected

friendship 7, with astronauts blast off to orbit around earth

1966 B-52s Bomb North Vietnam
1967 The US Secretary of Defence Robert McNamara admits that the US bombing raids had failed to meet their objectives

1968 January : North Korea captured U.S.S. Pueblo
President Johnson does not run for the presidency and Richard Nixon Elected President of the USA

August : Soviet Red Army crush Czechoslovakian revolt

1969 July 20 : Apollo 11 lands on the moon
1970 April : President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia
1971 Publication of the Pentagon Papers
1972 February: President Richard Nixon visits China
July : SALT I signed

1973 January : Cease fire in Vietnam between North Vietnam and United States

September : U.S. supported coup overthrows Chilean government

October : Egypt and Syria attack Israel; Egypt requests Soviet aid

1974 1974: August : President Nixon resigns
1975 April 17 : North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam which falls to Communist forces
1976 February: Soviet and Cuban forces help to install C

1979 January: U.S. and China establish diplomatic relations.
July : SALT II signed

November : Shah of Iran overthrown; Iranian Hostage Crisis

December: Soviet forces invade Afghanistan

1980 August: Polish shipyard workers strike Solidarity Union formed. Strike leader Lech Walesa is elected as the head of Solidarity

1983 President Reagan proposes Strategic Defence Initiative

1983: October : U.S. troops invades and overthrows regime in Grenada

1985 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union initiating a campaign of openness called "glasnost" and restructuring called "perestroika"

1986 October : President Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe

1987 October : Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove all medium and short-range nuclear missiles

1989 January : Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan

June : Poland becomes independent

September : Hungary becomes independent

November : Berlin Wall is demolished and East Germany allows unrestricted migration to West Germany

December : Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania
Decline of the Soviet empire

1990 March : Lithuania becomes independent

May 29 : Boris Yeltsin elected as President of Russia

October 3 : Germany reunited

1991 August : End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends