Cold War

By abigayle36
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    Cold War

  • Yalta Conference meeting of FDR

  • . Germany surrenders to the Red Army in Berlin

  • The United States drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

  • Russia declares war on Japan

  • Japanese surrender End of World War II

  • Truman demands Russia leave Iran

  • underwater explosion

  • Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War

  • Marshall Plan is announced

  • Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia

  • Berlin Blockade begins lasting 11 month

  • Berlin Blockade ends

  • Russia tested its first atomic bomb

  • Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt and loyalty tests

  • Truman Fires MacAuthor

  • A bombs developed by britian

  • Korean War Ends

  • Vietnam split at 17th parallel

  • Warsaw Pact formed

  • USSR sent military aid to Afghanistan

  • Sputnik launched into orbit

  • Berlin border is closed

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • U.S. supported coup overthrows Chilean government

  • Gulf of Tonkin incident

  • U.S. Marines sent to Dominican Republic to fight Communism

  • Bomb North Vietnam

  • President Richard Nixon visits China

  • U.S. and China establish diplomatic relations.

  • President Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe

  • Poland becomes independent

  • Germany reunited

  • End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends