IH Cold War Timeline

By YCPek

  • Yalta Conference

  • Roosevelt dies and is succeeded by Truman

  • Potsdam Conference

  • Kennan's Long Telegram

  • Churchill's 'Iron Curtail' speech

  • Truman Doctrine

  • Announcement of Marshall Plan

  • Berlin Blockade

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Creation of NATO

  • Soviets lift Berlin Blockade

  • Korean War starts

  • Stalin's death

  • Korean War ends (Armistice signed)

  • Cuban Missile Crisis begins

  • Cuban Missile Crisis ends

  • Reagan announces SDI

  • Reykjavik Summit

  • INF Treaty signed

  • Gorbachev's UN Speech

  • Comecon disbanded

  • August Coup