History Timeline

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    Tehran Conference

  • Period: to

    Yalta Conference

  • Roosevelt died

  • Germany surrender in WW2

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    Potsdam Conference

  • Japanese surrender; end of WW2

  • George Keenan Long Telegram

  • Churchill Iron Curtain Speech

  • Truman Doctrine

  • Marshall Plan announced

  • Molotov Plan

  • Czech Coup

  • Marshall Plan approved

  • Deutschmark introduced to West Germany

  • Soviet introduced their own currency reform to Germany

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    Berlin Blockade

  • NATO

  • Soviet successful testing of atomic bomb

  • Fall of China to communism

  • Dean Acheson's Defence Perimeter Speech

  • Stalin agree to Kim's invasion plans

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    Korean War

  • US sponsored a resolution in UN Security Council calling for military actions against North Korea

  • China entered Korean War on NK's side

  • Truman discharged General MacArthur for insubordination

  • POW Issue; Kim asked Stalin to make peace to end war

  • Death of Stalin

  • Operation Everready

  • Warsaw Pact

  • Castro takes power in Cuba

  • Land Redistribution Program

  • Cuba Trade Agreement with USSR

  • Castro openly aligns himself with Soviets

  • Cuba and US broke off diplomatic relations

  • JFK became President

  • Bay of Pigs

  • U2 accidents over Cuba & Siberia

  • Total embargo of goods to Cuba except food and medicine

  • Trade Embargo on all goods made from Cuban material

    even if they are made in another country
  • Khrushchev decided on installing missiles for various reasons

  • USA conducted Operation Quickkick

  • Castro accepts deployment of nuclear weapons

  • US intelligience discovered Soviets building missiles sites in Cuba

  • Quarantine of Cuban waters

  • Removal of missiles from Cuba

  • Glastnost, Perestroika

  • Collapse of Soviet Union