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The Cold War

By jackrice
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    Events of the Cold War

  • Yalta Conference Cold War Begins

  • United States first used atomic bomb in war

  • Russia enters war against Japan

  • Japanese surrender End of World War II

  • Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" Speech

  • Map of Europe

    Map of Europe

  • Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War

  • Marshall Plan is announced

  • President Nixon resigns

  • Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia

  • Berlin Blockade begins

  • Berlin Blockade ends

  • NATO ratified

  • Mao Zedong, a Communist, takes control of China

  • Soviets explode first atomic bomb

  • Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt

  • Korean War begins

  • Federal Civil Defense Administration established

  • Rosenberg executions

  • Korean War ends

  • CIA helps overthrow unfriendly regimes in Iran and Guatemala

  • KGB established

  • Vietnam split at 17th parallel

  • Warsaw Pact formed

  • Rebellion put down in Communist Hungary. Egypt took control of Suez Canal; U.S. refused to help take it back

  • 1957: October 4 -- Sputnik launched into orbit

  • Khrushchev demands withdrawal of troops from Berlin

  • Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro

  • Khrushchev visits United States; denied access to Disneyland

  • Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory

  • John F. Kennedy elected President

  • Bay of Pigs invasion

  • Kennedy requests 25% spending increase for military

  • Berlin border closed

  • Construction of Berlin Wall begins

  • U.S. involvement in Vietnam increased

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified

  • President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas

  • Gulf of Tonkin incident

  • U.S. Marines sent to Dominican Republic to fight Communism

  • Announcement of dispatching of 150,000 U.S. troops to Vietnam

  • North Korea captured U.S.S. Pueblo

  • Soviet troops crush Czechoslovakian revolt

  • Apollo 11 lands on the moon

  • President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia

  • SALT I signed

  • Cease fire in Vietnam between North Vietnam and United States

  • United States helps overthrow Chile government

  • Egypt and Syria attack Israel; Egypt requests Soviet aid

  • North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam

  • SALT II signed

  • Shah of Iran overthrown; Iranian Hostage Crisis

  • President Reagan proposes Strategic Defense Initiative

  • U.S. troops overthrow regime in Grenada

  • Iran-Contra Affair (arms sold to Iran, profits used to support contras in Nicaragua)

  • Mikhail Gorbachev ascends to power in Soviet Union

  • Gorbachev ends economic aid to Soviet satellites

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

  • Iran-Contra Affair revealed to public

  • Iran-Contra Affair revealed to public

  • Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove all medium and short-range nuclear missiles by signing treaty

  • Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan

  • China puts down protests for democracy; Poland becomes independent

  • 1989: September -- Hungary becomes independent

  • 1989: November -- Berlin Wall falls

  • Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania; Soviet empire ends

  • Lithuania becomes independent

  • Boris Yeltsin elected to presidency of Russia

  • 1990: October 3 -- Germany reunited

  • 1991: April -- Warsaw Pact ends

  • End of Soviet Union Cold War Ends