Timeline of the Cold War

 

 

 

Timeline of the Cold War

 

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Timeline of the Cold War

 

Timeline of the Cold War
1940s

  • 1945: February 4-11-- Yalta Conference Cold War Begins

  • 1945: August 6 -- United States first used atomic bomb in war

  • 1945: August 8 -- Russia enters war against Japan

  • 1945: August 14 -- Japanese surrender End of World War II

  • 1946: March -- Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" Speech

  • 1947: March -- Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War

  • 1947: June -- Marshall Plan is announced

  • 1948: February -- Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia

  • 1948: June 24 -- Berlin Blockade begins

  • 1949: July -- NATO ratified

  • 1949: May 12 -- Berlin Blockade ends

  • 1949: September -- Mao Zedong, a Communist, takes control of China

  • 1949: September -- Soviets explode first atomic bomb

1950s

  • 1950: February -- Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt

  • 1950: June -- Korean War begins

  • 1951: January 12 -- Federal Civil Defense Administration established

  • 1953: June 19 -- Rosenberg executions

  • 1953: July -- Korean War ends

  • 1954: March -- KGB established

  • 1954 -- CIA helps overthrow unfriendly regimes in Iran and Guatemala

  • 1954: July -- Vietnam split at 17th parallel

  • 1955: May -- Warsaw Pact formed

  • 1956: October - November -- Rebellion put down in Communist Hungary. Egypt took control of Suez Canal; U.S. refused to help take it back

  • 1957: October 4 -- Sputnik launched into orbit

  • 1958: November -- Khrushchev demands withdrawal of troops from Berlin

  • 1959: January -- Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro

  • 1959: September -- Khrushchev visits United States; denied access to Disneyland

1960s

  • 1960: May -- Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory

  • 1960: November -- John F. Kennedy elected President

  • 1961: April -- Bay of Pigs invasion

  • 1961: July -- Kennedy requests 25% spending increase for military

  • 1961: August 13 -- Berlin border closed

  • 1961: August 17 -- Construction of Berlin Wall begins

  • 1962: -- U.S. involvement in Vietnam increased

  • 1962: October -- Cuban Missile Crisis

  • 1963: July -- Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified

  • 1963: November -- President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas

  • 1964: August -- Gulf of Tonkin incident

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

  • 1965: July -- Announcement of dispatching of 150,000 U.S. troops to Vietnam

  • 1968: January -- North Korea captured U.S.S. Pueblo

  • 1968: August -- Soviet troops crush Czechoslovakian revolt

  • 1969: July 20 -- Apollo 11 lands on the moon

1970s

  • 1970: April -- President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia

  • 1972: July -- SALT I signed

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

  • 1973: September -- United States helps overthrow Chile government

  • 1973: October -- Egypt and Syria attack Israel; Egypt requests Soviet aid

  • 1974: August -- President Nixon resigns

  • 1975: April 17 -- North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam

  • 1979: July -- SALT II signed

  • 1979: November -- Shah of Iran overthrown; Iranian Hostage Crisis

1980s

  • 1983: -- President Reagan proposes Strategic Defense Initiative

  • 1983: October -- U.S. troops overthrow regime in Grenada

  • 1985: -- Iran-Contra Affair (arms sold to Iran, profits used to support contras in Nicaragua)

  • 1985: -- Mikhail Gorbachev ascends to power in Soviet Union

  • 1986: -- Gorbachev ends economic aid to Soviet satellites

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

  • 1986: November -- Iran-Contra Affair revealed to public

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

  • 1989: January -- Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan

  • 1989: June -- China puts down protests for democracy; Poland becomes independent

  • 1989: September -- Hungary becomes independent

  • 1989: November -- Berlin Wall falls

  • 1989: December -- Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania; Soviet empire ends

1990s

  • 1990: March -- Lithuania becomes independent

  • 1990: May 29 -- Boris Yeltsin elected to presidency of Russia

  • 1990: October 3 -- Germany reunited

  • 1991: April -- Warsaw Pact ends

  • 1991: August -- End of Soviet Union Cold War Ends

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