COLD WAR EVENTS

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    COLD WAR EVENTS

  • 1945: February 4-11-- Yalta Conference Cold War Begins

    in 1945. Both sides distrusted the other. One had a vast army in the field (the Soviet Union with its Red Army supremely lead by Zhukov) while the other, the Americans had the most powerful weapon in the world, the A-bomb and the Soviets had no way on knowing how many America had.

  • 1945: -- United States first used atomic bomb in war

  • 1945: August 14 -- Japanese surrender End of World War II

  • 1946: March -- Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" Speech

  • 1947: March -- Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War

  • 1948: February -- Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia

  • 1949: July -- NATO ratified

  • 1950: June -- Korean War begins

  • 1951: January 12 -- Federal Civil Defense Administration established

  • 1953: July -- Korean War ends

  • 1954: July -- Vietnam split at 17th parallel

  • 1956: October - November -- Rebellion put down in Communist Hungary. Egypt took control of Suez Canal; U.S. refused to help take it back

  • 1959: September -- Khrushchev visits United States; denied access to Disneyland

  • 1961: April -- Bay of Pigs invasion

  • 1963: July -- Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified

  • 1968: January -- North Korea captured U.S.S. Pueblo

  • 1969: July 20 -- Apollo 11 lands on the moon

  • 1970: April -- President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia

  • 1973: January -- Cease fire in Vietnam between North Vietnam and United States

  • 1974: August -- President Nixon resigns

  • 1975: April 17 -- North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam