The House of Un-American Activities Committee founded
Red Army liberates eastern Slovakia
Red Army enters Hungary
Tito's Partisans and Soviet forces liberate Belgrade/ Yugoslavia
Period: to
Cold War
Bretton Woods conference
Red Army enters eastern Poland
Percentages Agreement
Failed Warsaw Uprising by Communist Home Army
Red Army liberates Warsaw
Yalta Conference
Budapest falls to the Soviets
Roosevelt dies
Prague Uprising; Red Army enters and liberates Prague.
First US Atomic bomb tested and Churchill loses election
Potsdam Conference
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
UN created
Iran Crisis
Chinese Civil war (Jiang Jieshi's Nationalist Kuomintang vs Mao's CCP) with USA & USSR backing both sides.
Kennan's Long Telegram
Iron Curtain speech
Strategic Air Command for air defense set up in USA in response to growing nuclear threat.
German Social Democrats and Communist parties of East Germany were merged= German Socialist Unity party.
Bizonia created
Moscow Conference on Germany's future which resulted in no agreements
Clayton reported on the state of Europe
Truman Doctrine announced
The USA gave $400 million in aid to Greece and Turkey as part of the Truman Doctrine.
Marshall Plan announced (ERP) $13.3bn given to 16 European countries
London conference on Germany's future also failed
Hollywood ten convicted for a year and blacklisted, for refusing to speak about communist activity in court.
Deutschmark introduced in West Germany
Berlin Blockade in response to new currency
West Germany would get its own constitution
Trizonia formed
NATO created
FRG joins Council of Europe
Berlin Blockade lifted.
First Soviet A-bomb test.
CCP wins: People's Republic of China
East Germany got new constitution allowing for 1 party state
Stalin agrees to give N.Korea arms
Alger Hiss (State Department official) convicted for perjury: denying passing information to Whittaker Chambers.
Defensive Perimeter Strategy announced by US Secretary of State Dean Acheson. It excluded Taiwan & S.Korea
Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance
NSC-68 resolution is issued: Review of USA's strategic and security objectives.
N.Korea invades South & captures Seoul
UN intervenes (US-led) – USSR absent from Security Council over China.
Inchon landings: MacArthur pushes North Korea past 38th parallel
UN troops reach Yalu River – China enters war.
China pushes UN forces back, re-takes Seoul.
MacArthur dismissed by Truman for insubordination.
Stalemate for 3 years
The San Francisco Treaty was lenient on Japan, benefiting the USA. China and the USSR didn’t sign.
US-Japan Security Treaty signed, Allowing USA to put bases in Japan.
Stalin dies
Castro failed in attacking the Moncada Barracks. Incited the 26th July movement.
Panmunjom Armistice Agreement signed – Korea remains divided at the 38th Parallel.
USA funded 75% of French trying to control Indochina
USA tested lithium based H-Bomb=1500x Little boy
Domino Theory popularised by Eisenhower
Geneva Conference: French withdrew from Vietnam and it was divided at 17th parallel.
SEATO created in response to Sino-Soviet alliance.
Us senate voted McCarthy bringing body into disrepute
West Germany joins NATO
Warsaw Pact created in response to West Germany joining NATO
Austrian State Treaty signed: All occupying forces withdrawn and it becomes neutral.
Brinkmanship popularised by John Foster Dulles (Secretary of State)
Krushchev's secret speech
Hungary protests grew into revolution as Nagy took power and Soviets briefly withdrew.
Poland gained limited reforms under Gomułka after protests/uprising as Khrushchev allowed change to avoid conflict while keeping Poland in the Soviet sphere.
Nagy announced Hungary's freedom from Warsaw and neutrality.
Soviet troops entered Hungary, crushed rising and installed Kadar as leader
USSR test 1st ICBM
Soviets first to put satellite into orbit.
Laika the the dog launched into orbit via Sputnik II
USSR issued ultimatum: withdraw from west Berlin and it becomes free city
Batista overthrown by Castro
Castro introduced new Agrarian reforms which seized US properties in Cuba.
Khrushchev visits the USA
Soviet 1st Deputy premier Anastas Mikoyan visited Cuba. $100mn trade agreement: sugar for crude oil.
First shipment of crude oil which US companies refused to refine. Castro nationalised them
U2 spy plane shot down and Paris summit collapses before discussion
Castro seized $1bn worth of US assets in response to 95% tariffs on sugar.
NLF established in South Vietnam to free it from US influence and unify Vietnam.
Bay of Pigs invasion
US-Cuba relations collapse upon asking us embassy to downsize to 11 people
A physical border began being erected in Berlin to stop brain drain.
Operation Mongoose: CIA op approved by JFK to overthrow Castro. Involved assassination attempts, propaganda, espionage.