COLD WAR By vaneezamk 1917 The Bolshevek Revolution in Russia Period: 1918 to 1922 Russian Civil War 1943 The Tehran Conference 1944 Normandy landings 1945 The Yalta Conference 1945 President Roosevelt died 1945 Winston Churchill’s conservative party lost 1945 The Emergence of Superpowers Period: 1945 to 1953 Stalin and Mao May 7, 1945 Germany surrendered unconditionally Jul 17, 1945 the US successfully tested its first atomic bomb 1949 US policy of containment in Europe had been successful 1950 EAST WEST RELATIONS Agreement over Austria Period: 1950 to 1953 SINO – AMERICAN RELATIONS: KOREAN WAR Period: 1950 to 1953 USSR, THE PRC, and the Korean War 1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected US President 1953 Stalin dies 1953 Americans include Taiwan in a part of their containment perimeter Jul 15, 1953 US STATE DEPARTMENT BULLETIN Period: 1954 to 1958 TAIWAN 1955 GENEVA SUMMIT 1955 Bandung Conference 1956 Diem, with US support, refuses to hold elections Period: 1956 to 1964 Mao, Khrushchev and the “split” 1957 Conference of Communist Parties Oct 4, 1957 Soviets launched the world’s first artificial Satellite – Sputnik 1958 Eisenhower was confident about US nuclear superiority 1958 Khrushchev visits Beijing 1958 Mao gears up to take Taiwan 1959 Soviets denounce GLF 1960 SINO- AMERICAN RELATIONS 1960 Kennedy is elected 1963 laws passed banning the celebration of Buddha’s birthday 1963 Kennedy is assassinated and Lyndon Johnson becomes President 1966 USA POLICY TOWARDS CHINA Period: 1966 to 1976 Sino Soviet relations and the Cultural Revolution 1967 Johnson “light at the end of the tunnel” 1968 Nixon is elected 1969 Sino-Soviet Border War 1970 SINO-AMERICAN DÉTENTE 1972 NIXON VISITS CHINA Period: May 13, 1972 to 1973 PARIS PEACE TALKS Jan 27, 1973 Peace settlement signed 1978 Vietnam signed a military alliance with USSR and invades Cambodia 1979 China invades Vietnam Period: 1982 to 2000 Sino-Soviet Rapprochement 1985 GENEVA SUMMIT 1990 Gorbachev gets a Nobel Peace prize