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1945
Nazi Germany’s surrender, the Red Army and therefore Moscow, effectively controlled the bulk of Eastern Europe. Initially, the people of Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary saw the Red Army as their liberators. -
1945
Nazi Germany’s surrender, the Red Army and therefore Moscow, effectively controlled the bulk of Eastern Europe. Initially, the people of Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary saw the Red Army as their liberators. -
1945
Nazi Germany’s surrender, the Red Army and therefore Moscow, effectively controlled the bulk of Eastern Europe. Initially, the people of Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary saw the Red Army as their liberators. -
1945
Nazi Germany’s surrender, the Red Army and therefore Moscow, effectively controlled the bulk of Eastern Europe. Initially, the people of Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary saw the Red Army as their liberators. -
1945
Nazi Germany’s surrender, the Red Army and therefore Moscow, effectively controlled the bulk of Eastern Europe. Initially, the people of Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary saw the Red Army as their liberators. -
1945
Nazi Germany’s surrender, the Red Army and therefore Moscow, effectively controlled the bulk of Eastern Europe. Initially, the people of Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary saw the Red Army as their liberators. -
1945
Nazi Germany’s surrender, the Red Army and therefore Moscow, effectively controlled the bulk of Eastern Europe. Initially, the people of Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary saw the Red Army as their liberators. -
1945
Nazi Germany’s surrender, the Red Army and therefore Moscow, effectively controlled the bulk of Eastern Europe. Initially, the people of Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary saw the Red Army as their liberators. -
1950
, particularly in Europe, pushed both Cold War sides to the limit. No actual fighting occurred -
1946
The speech was titled “The Sinews of Peace”. But it is better remembered as the “Iron Curtain” speech. The part most remembered is From Stettin in the Baltic to Tieste in the Adriatic an "iron curtain" has descended across the continent. -
1980
One city that seemed to symbolise what the Cold War was all about was Berlin.Stalin had agreed that Berlin should be quartered and divided among the victorious Soviet, American, British and French forces. -
1980
One city that seemed to symbolise what the Cold War was all about was Berlin.Stalin had agreed that Berlin should be quartered and divided among the victorious Soviet, American, British and French forces. -
1948
the major rail and road lines into Berlin were shut for “maintenance”. There was little France, GB or the USA could do other than protest. The three Allied occupied zones in Berlin faced the prospect of being starved out. -
1949
The Soviet Union had breached the security of the US atomic research facility at Los Alamos. The information passed on by the likes of Klaus Fuchs and David Greenglass meant that the Soviet Union exploded her first atomic bomb -
1947
The American and British zones of control in Germany are united to form the Bizone also known as Bizonia. -
1957
The Eisenhower doctrine commits the US to defending Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan from Communist influence. -
1958
the pro-British monarch. Iraq begins to receive support from the Soviets. Iraq will maintain close ties with the Soviets throughout the Cold War. -
1959
Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro becomes the leader of Cuba although refrains from declaring the country Communist. Cuban-inspired guerrilla movements spring up across Latin America. -
2000
t is a Communist insurgent movement that vows to overthrow the anti-communist South Vietnamese dictatorship. It is supplied extensively by North Vietnam and the USSR eventually. -
1956
USSR and USA competed for influence in Latin America and decolonizing states of Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Meanwhile the Hungarian Revolution was stopped by the Soviets -
1945
The Yalta Conference occurs, deciding the post-war status of Germany. The Allies of World War II (the USA, the USSR, Great Britain and France) divide Germany into four occupation zones. The Allied nations agree that free elections are to be held in all countries occupied by Nazi Germany. In addition, the new United Nations are to replace the failed League of Nations. -
1951
United Nations forces recapture Seoul during Operation Ripper. By the end of March, they have reached the 38th Parallel, and formed a defensive line across the Korean peninsula Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of espionage for their role in passing atomic secrets to the Soviets during and after World War II. US President Harry S. Truman fires Douglas MacArthur from command of US forces in Korea. -
1952
: the Treaty of San Francisco, signed by Japan on September 8, comes into effect, and Japan signs the Treaty of Taipei, formally ending its period of occupation and isolation, and becoming a sovereign state. -
1953
Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes President of the United State Joseph Stalin dies, setting off a power struggle to succeed him. American journalist William N. Oatis is released from prison in Czechoslovakia after serving 22 months of a ten-year sentence for espionage. -
1954
The United States launches the world's first nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus. The nuclear submarine would become the ultimate nuclear deterrent. The Viet Minh defeat the French at Dien Bien Phu. France withdraws from Indochina, leaving four independent states: Cambodia, Laos, and what became North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The Geneva Accords calls for free elections to unite Vietnam, but none of the major Western powers wish this to occur in the likely case that the Viet Minh nationali -
1955
The Baghdad Pact is founded by Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. It is committed to resisting Communist expansion in the Middle East.
Soviet aid to Syria begins. The Syrians will remain allies of the Soviets until the end of the Cold War. -
1956
Nikita Khrushchev delivers the speech "On the Personality Cult and its Consequences" at the closed session of the Twentieth Party Congress of the CPSU. The speech marks the beginning of the De-Stalinization
