cold war events By tatoreso Dec 6, 1941 USSR declares war on Germany Period: 1945 to 1947 Soviet expansion into eastern europe Period: Feb 4, 1945 to Feb 11, 1945 Yalta Conference Jul 2, 1945 WWII ends Aug 6, 1945 Atomic bombs in hiroshima Mar 5, 1946 The Iron Courtain speech Mar 10, 1947 Truman Doctrine Period: Jun 24, 1948 to May 12, 1949 Berlin blockade and airlift Jan 25, 1949 Comecon Creation Apr 4, 1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization Oct 23, 1949 Hungarian Revolution Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953 Korean War 1952 Ivy Mike (First H Bomb) Period: Oct 20, 1956 to Nov 7, 1956 Suez Canal Crisis Sep 10, 1957 Launch of Sputnik 1 Aug 12, 1961 Berlin wall goes up Period: Oct 16, 1962 to Oct 29, 1962 Cuban missile crisis Nov 22, 1963 JFK assasination 1964 brezhnevb replaced khrushchev 1968 Breznhev Doctrine Jul 20, 1968 Apollo 11 lands on the moon May 26, 1972 Salt 1 Treaty Jul 30, 1974 Helsinki Accords Period: Nov 4, 1979 to Jan 20, 1980 Iran Hostage Crisis Apr 26, 1986 Chernobyl disaster 1989 Boris Yeltsin becomes the russian president Nov 9, 1989 Berlin wall fall Dec 26, 1991 end of USSR
