Cold War Timeline

By Edithxxcy_2004

  • Allies divided Germany into 4 zones.

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    Edith's timeline

    Allies divided Germany into 4 zones.

  • Stalin hostile speech - communism & capitalism were incompatible

  • Puerto Rico becomes a commonwealth.

  • A-bombs developed by Britain.

  • Warsaw Pact formed.

  • USSR sent tanks into Poznan, Poland, to suppress demonstrations by workers

  • Vostok rocket launched 1st ICBM

  • Fidel Castro takes power in Cuba.

  • A-bombs developed by France.

  • JFK is assasinated.

  • Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified

  • The US Secretary of Defence Robert McNamara admits that the US bombing raids had failed to meet their objectives.

  • President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia

  • V.S troops leave the Vietnam.

  • Mikhail Gorbachov becomes the Soviet Union.

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

  • The Soviet Union falls.

  • End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends.

  • Russia has a new constitution.

  • Venezuela elects Hugo Chavez as President.