F Period Cold War Timeline

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  • Creation of Gold Coast Colony

    British in Ghana

  • Gold Coast becomes official British colony

  • Berlin Conference-King Leopold gets Congo

  • Leopold forced to cede Congo to Belgian Gov

  • USSR formed

  • Anglo-Iranian oil Company/ BP is established

  • Mao Zedong's Long March begins

  • Period: to

    Br/Soviet troops occupy Iran

    want oil

  • Japanese Occupy French Indochina (Vietnam)

  • Reza Khan abdicates in favor of son Mohammed Reza Shah

  • Korea divides into 2 countries

  • Japanese oust Vichy France from French Indochina (Vietnam)

  • Potsdam Conference

    sets stage for Cold War

  • Ho Chi Minh proclaims Democratic Republic of Vietnam

  • British take full control of Gold Coast

  • French start a war in Vietnam

  • Period: to

    Iron Curtain

    USSR seals itself off with "imaginary" boundary

  • African leaders form United Gold Coast Political Party

  • Period: to

    Truman Doctrine Enforced

    counters Soviet political expansion

  • British Withdraw from Israel

  • Period: to

    Marshall Plan

    USA gave 12 billion in aid to W Europe for rebuilding post WWII

  • Israel Independence

  • Period: to

    Berlin Blockade

    designed to starve the allies out of W Berlin, failed

  • Semi-independent state of Vietnam is established

  • Mao Zedong/Communists defeat Chinese Nationalists

  • China joins Korean War on the North

  • North Korea invades South Korea

  • US joins Korean War

    from South

  • American Troops reach North Korean capital

  • Mohammad Mossadegh elected

  • Peace talks begin between North and South Korea

  • Period: to

    Mossadeq Nationalizes Iran's Oil Industry

  • Eisenhower Elected President of USA

  • Egyptian Coup

  • Shah Returns to Iran post-CIA coup

  • Mossadegh is ousted

  • Nasser makes Egypt a democracy

  • Period: to

    Cuban Revolution

  • North and South Korea agree to a truce at 38th Parallel

  • Diem becomes PM in South Vietnam

  • French lose battle of Dien Bien Phu

  • Negotiations about Vietnam split nation at 17th Parallel

  • Egyptian-Czech arms deal

    arms funneled through USSR after USA refuses to sell arms to Egypt

  • British pull troops out of Egypt

  • Diem establishes Republic of Vietnam in South

  • Iraq and Turkey sign Baghdad Pact with UK

  • Br/Fr/Is Invade Egypt

  • Nasser Nationalizes the Suez Canal

  • Ghana gains independence

  • Mao launches Great Leap Forward

  • Batista leaves Cuba after Fidel Castro leads Coup

  • North Vietnam activates Ho Chi Minh trail

  • Vietcong/NLF established

  • Congo Gains Independence

    almost immediately falls into chaos
  • Period: to

    Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • Berlin Wall built

  • Period: to

    Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Dissident Muslim Clerics expelled from Iran by Shah

  • Period: to

    Diem killed USA-backed coup in South Vietnam

  • N Vietnam directly intervenes in S Vietnam

  • USA begins bombing N Vietnam

  • Arab League Invades Israel

  • Period: to

    Six Day War in Israel

  • Nasser dies

  • SALT 1

    negotiation to achieve nuclear parity between USA and USSR

  • SALT 2

    limited creation of tactical nuclear weapons

  • Iranian Revolution

  • Reagan vilifies USSR

    "Evil Empire" and SDI- makes nukes obsolete

  • Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power in USSR

    youngest gensec since Stalin, perestroika, glasnost, reduces defense spending

  • Soviet's institutes non-intervention policy in E. Europe

    USSR isn't going to send army to E Euro to back up communist regimes

  • German Unified

  • Communist Coup in USSR

    fails to reinstate Communism

  • Boris Yeltsin Elected President of USSR

    Soviet Union dissolves, Cold War ends

  • Berlin wall Falls