B Period Cold War Timeline

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  • Balfour Declaration

    Signed at the end of WWI, promising the Jews homeland in Palestine
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    British discredit Ghanaian independence leaders as communist

  • USSR formed

  • Joseph Stalin becomes leader of USSR

  • Iran establishes a constitutional monarchy

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    Batista Ruled in Cuba

  • Mohammad Reza Khan abdicates the throne to Iran.

    His son, Mohammad Reza Shah succeeds him

  • Korean War

  • Split into West and East Germany

    West Germany was Democratic, with Capitalist leanings. East Germany was communist.

  • Vietnam Civil War

    War between Ho Chi Minh and anti-communists

  • "Iron Curtain"

    Winston Churchill declared an "Iron Curtain has descended across the continent"

  • Partitioning of Berlin

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    Berlin Blockade and airlift

    Soviets put a blockade around all supply lines to Western Germany. The US airlifted food and resources.

  • Israel becmoes a nation

  • East Berlin Formed

  • MAo in power as president of communist party in China

  • North Korea invades South Korea

  • Mohammad Mossadegh elected

    First democratically elected Prime Minister in Iran

  • Anglo-Iranian oil Company/ BP is nationalized

  • Mossadegh is ousted

    In a coup lead by the British and Americans

  • Le Duan (Vietnam)

    Le Duan pushes north to take over south
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    Agricultural reform in China

  • Military attack that starts Cuban Revolution

  • Korean Truce

  • Geneva Conference

    Partitioning of Vietnam on 17 parallel. It ended France involvement

  • Diem creates his own state in South Vietnam

    Becomes Prime Minister in the South

  • Warsaw Pact

    Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union
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    Suez Crisis

    Nassar Nationalizes Suez canal, GB, France, and Israel invaded and reached an armistice.

  • Ghanaian Independence

  • Batista leaves Cuba after Fidel Castro leads Coup

  • Congolese gain independence from Belgium

    Americans think the government is communist

  • United States backs successful Coup

    Joseph Mobuntu becomes dictator
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    Berlin Wall

    Physically and ideologically divided Berlin

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • Berlin Wall built

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    Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Khomeini is expelled from Iran

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    Diem Dies (vietnam)

    Military coup kills Diem
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    American- Vietnam War

    American fight Vietnamese war

  • Cultural Revolution in China

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    Six Day War in Israel

  • SALT 1

    limit defense creation
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    Iranian Revolution

  • SALT 2

    limit Nuclear Weapons creation

  • Gorbachev becomes GenSec

    Glasnost and Perestroika impeached

  • Implement the Congress of People's Deputies

  • Soviet troops pulled out of Afghanistan

  • Free election in USSR

  • Gorbachev ends communist monopoly

  • Failed communist coup in USSR

  • Boris Yeltsin is the first elected president

  • Soviet Union Falls