Cold War

By lolashezza

  • Death Franz Ferdinand

  • NKVD created

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    Comintern

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    First Red Scare

    US scared that Soviet spies are spreading commuinst messages to US citizens.

  • League of Nations created

  • Wall Street Crash

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    Japan invades Korea

  • 'New Deal' by Roosevelt

  • HUAC created

  • Katyn Massacre

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    Tehran Conference

    Agreed that USSR would declare war to Japan.

  • Operation Overlord

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    Communist dominance increase in Albania

  • Lublin government created

    Buffer zone for USSR.
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    Yalta Conference

  • Death Roosevelt

  • Nazi Germany surrenders

  • Trinity Test

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    Potsdam Conference

  • UN created

  • UN created

  • Zhdanov Doctrine

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    Greek Civil War

    Communist uprising in the Greek government.

  • Kennan's Telegram

  • Novikov Telegram

  • Paris Peace Conference

  • USSR representative walk out of Paris Peace Conference

  • Hollywood 10 case

  • Reverse Course

  • Truman Doctrine

  • George Marshall speech

    Speech about the Marshall Plan.

  • Cominform created

  • Hiss case

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    Operation Vittles/ Berlin Blockade

    Supplied West Berlin with food and supplies.

  • Marshall Plan signed

  • East and West Germany officially divided

  • West Germany joins OEEC

  • Rosenberg case

  • Stalin convinces Mao to send troops to North Korea

  • NSC-68

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    First Phase Korean War

    No actions taken, Stalin and Mao think the US want a peace treaty.

  • Operation Chromite

    UN forces land in Inchon.
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    Second Phase Korean War

    MacArthur lands in Inchon and forces North troops to retaliate. Mao sends 300,000 Chinese troops into North Korea.
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    Third Phase Korean War

    Chinese troops invade Seoul. US indicated to USSR and China a ceasefire.
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    Fourth Phase Korean War

    No further military movements. Makes USSR and China believe they actually want a peace settlement.

  • Eisenhower wins elections

  • Bonn Convention

  • Armistice signed at Panmunjon

  • Sino-Soviet alliance

  • Death Stalin

  • East Berlin revolts against Soviet troops

  • Ceasefire agreed to end Korean War

  • NSC 162/2

  • SEATO created

  • McCarthy censured

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    Khrushchev in power

  • Austrian Treaty

  • Warsaw Pact

  • West Germany joins NATO

  • Geneva Summit

  • Khrushchev's 'Secret Speech'

  • Imre Nagy elected in Hungary

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    Polish Rising

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    Hungarian Rising

  • Ike speech on US economic capacity

  • Hungary leaves Warsaw Pact

  • Red Army invades Budapest

  • EEC created

  • Khrushchev list of demands on Berlin

  • US rejects Khrushchev's list of demands on Berlin

  • Batista's regime oevrthrown by Castro

  • Camp David

  • U2 discovered

  • Paris Summit

  • Khrushchev takes shoe off at UN meeting

  • Bay of Pigs

  • First meeting Khrushchev and JFK in Vienna

  • JFK radio speech to Americans

  • Warsaw Pact forces mobilised to Berlin

  • Wire fence put up in Berlin

  • Concrete wall put up in Berlin

  • LBJ partition rejected by Khrushchev

  • Soviet response to LBJ

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    Checkpoint Charlie

  • Operation Mongoose

  • Operation Anadyr

  • Khrushchev stores missiles to Cuba

  • U2 spy plane discovers missiles in Cuba

  • Khrushchev sends telegram to Kennedy regarding an end to Missile crisis

  • Meeting Kennedy and Soviet ambassador

  • Khrushchev withdraws the missiles stored in Cuba

  • Moscow Test Ban Treaty

  • 'Hot Line' created

  • China make first nuclear weapon

  • Death Khrushchev