The Cold War
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The term 'Cold War' coined
4/16/1947Political
Poland led by communists
6/28/1945Churchill loses election
7/1945Potsdam Conference
7/17/1945 - 8/2/1945Gouzenko defects, describes Soviet spy ring
9/5/1945Gouzenko, a person working in the Soviet embassy in Canada, defects and provides information of an active Soviet spy ring in Canada and other Western nations.
the UN Charter ratified
10/24/1945The Long Telegram
2/22/1946Iron Curtain Speech
3/5/1946Churchill holds his famous Iron Curtain speech.
Britain and US merge their zones in Germany - Bizone
1/1/1947USA changes occupation policies on Germany
7/11/1947Clauses prohibiting economic rehabilitation in Germany are removed by clauses permitting economic growth.
India, Pakistan granted independence
8/14/1947COMINFORM created
10/1947Czechoslovakia becomes Communist
2/25/1948This marks the end of communist takeovers in Eastern Europe.
Treaty of Brussel
3/1948Finnish-Russian Friendship Treaty
4/6/1948Bizone and French zone merges, forms Federal Republic of Germany
5/23/1948West German zones launches common currency
6/21/1948The French zone and the Bizone launches Deutche Mark.
Yugoslavia expelled from COMINFORM
6/28/1948Republic of Korea formed
7/17/1948Democratic People's Republic of Korea formed
9/9/1948Federal Republic of Germany
5/23/1949USSR vetoes UN membership of some nations
9/13/1949Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Finland, Iceland, Italy, Jordan, and Portugal
People's Republic of China founded
10/1/1949German Democratic Republic founded
10/7/1949UK recognices PRC, ROC severs diplomatic relations
1/5/1950Soviet Union and China sign Pact of Mutual Defense
2/16/1950Schuman Plan
5/9/1950UN decides to send forces to Korea
6/27/1950McCarren Bill
9/1950The Rosenbergs convicted for espionage
3/29/1951Greece, Turkey joins NATO
9/1951Treaty of San Francisco
9/1951Truman signs Mutual Security Act
10/1951Libya independent
12/1951Eisenhower becomes US President
1/20/1953Stalin dies
3/5/1953Uprising in East Germany
6/16/1953Iranian coup arranged by CIA
8/1953Nikita Khrushchev leader of USSR
9/7/1953KGB established
3/1954SEATO founded
9/8/1954Baghdad Pact founded
2/24/1955Also called Middle East Treaty Organization, committing to resist Soviet expansion in the Middle East.
Indian PM forms predecessor of NAM
4/1955Khrushchev holds anti-Stalin speech
2/25/1956Poznan Uprising
6/28/1956Molotov forced to retire
6/1957NASA est.
10/1958Kennedy inaugurated
1/20/1960U2 plane shot down
5/1960SIno-Soviet Split
6/1960US relation to Cuba broken
1/1961IRBM in Turkey
6/1961Berlin Wall built
8/13/1961Non-Aligned Movement unofficially founded
9/1/1961Castro defines himself as Marxist-Leninist
12/2/1961Moscow-Washington Hotline established
6/20/1963Ngo Diem assassinated
11/2/1963Leonid Brezhnev succeeds Khrushchev
10/14/1964Bangkok Declaration signed
8/8/1967The founding document of Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Vietnamisation starts
7/1969US troops to Cambodia
4/1970PRC recognised by UN as sole legitimate govt. of China
10/25/1971Nixon visits China
2/21/1972 - 2/28/1972SALT 1
5/1972Watergate Scandal
7/1972Nixon resignes
8/1974Helsinki Accords
7/1975 - 8/1/1975An attempt to improve the relationship between the Communist and Capitalist blocs.
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
7/15/1975 - 7/24/1975A joint US-Soviet space flight. Is seen as a symbol of détente.
Economic
Truman Doctrine launched
3/12/1947Marshall Plan
6/5/1947 - 6/30/1952Czechoslovakia and Poland forced to reject Marshall Plan
7/1947COMECON
1/1949NSC-68
4/1950European Coal and Steel Communited founded
4/18/1951Japan becomes a sovereign state
4/28/1952... after signing the Treaty of Taipei and Treaty of San Francisco.
Embargo on Cuba proclaimed
10/1960Technological
First nuclear-powered submarine
6/14/1952USSR develops ICBM
8/1957Sputnik Satellite launched
10/4/1957Sputnik II with Laika
11/3/1957First human in space is a Soviet
4/12/1961First Manned Moon Landing
7/20/1969Apollo 11.
Military
NATO formed
4/4/1949USSR successfully tests A-bomb
8/29/1949UK successfully tests A-bomb
10/2/1952US successfully test thermonuclear bomb
11/1/1952West Germany joins NATO
5/9/1955Warsaw Pact founded
5/14/1955Geneva Summit
7/18/1955Discussions about world peace.
France successfully test A-bomb
2/16/1960Operation Mongoose
11/1961Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
7/1963Lyndon Johnson, Khrushchev slows production of nuclear bombs
4/20/1964US President Lyndon Johnson and USSR Premier Nikita Khrushchev simultaneously announces that they are going to cut back on the production of nuclear weapons.
China successfully tests A-bomb
10/16/1964France partially withdraws from NATO
3/10/1966Conflicts
Iranian Crisis
1/1946 - 12/1946Post-WW2 Civil War in China
3/31/1946 - 5/1/1950First Indochina War
12/19/1946 - 8/1/1954France - Vietnam
The Berlin Blockade
6/24/1948 - 5/12/1949The Korean War
6/25/1950 - 7/27/1953Battle of Incheon
9/30/1950China invades Tibet
10/1950China intervenes in Korean War
10/22/1950Cuban Revolution
7/26/1953 - 1/1/1959First Taiwan Strait Crisis
9/3/1954 - 5/1/1955Vietnam War
11/1/1955 - 4/30/1975Hungarian revolution
10/23/1956Suez Crisis
10/29/1956 - 11/7/1956Communist insurgency in South Vietnam
12/1956Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
8/23/1958 - 10/6/1958Second Berlin Crisis
11/1958Bay of Pigs invasion
4/17/1961 - 4/19/1961Cuban Missile Crisis
10/16/1962 - 10/28/1962Gulf of Tonkin incident
8/4/1964US marines land in Vietnam
3/1965US starts bombing North Vietnam
3/1965Six-Day War
6/5/1967 - 6/10/1967Tet Offensive
1/1968Johnson suspends bombing
3/1968My Lai Incident
3/1968Invasion of Czechoslovakia
8/20/1968 - 9/20/1968By Warsaw Pact nations.