The Cold War

By filippa
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    Joseph Stalin

  • Yalta Conference

  • USA uses first atomic bomb in war

  • Russia enters war against Japan

  • Japan surrenders, end of WWII

  • Churchill delivers 'Iron Curtain' speech

  • Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War

  • Marshall Plan Announced

  • Communists take over Czechoslovakia

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    Berlin Blockade

  • NATO ratified

  • Mao Zedong (communist) takes control of China

  • Soviets explode first atomic bomb

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    President Harry S Truman

  • Senator Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt

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    Korean War

  • President Truman founds Federal Civil Defence Administration

    The Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA) was organized by Democratic president Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) on December 1, 1950, and became an official government agency on January 12, 1951. The agency distributed posters, programs, and information about communism and the threat of communist attacks.

  • Joseph Stalin dies

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    President Dwight D Eisenhower

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    Nikita Khrushchev

  • Vietnam split at the 17th parallel

  • Warsaw Pact formed

  • Sputnik (USSR) launched into orbit

  • Khrushchev demands withdrawal of troops from Berlin

  • Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro (communist)

  • Soviet Union reveals that US spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory

  • Bay of Pigs invasion

  • JFK requests 25% spending increase for military

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    President John F Kennedy

  • Berlin border closed

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    Berlin Wall

  • US Involvement in Vietnam increased

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

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    President Lyndon B Johnson

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    Leonid Brezhnev

  • US Marines sent to Dominican Republic to Fight Communism

  • Soviet troops crush Czechoslovakian revolt

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    President Richard Nixon

  • Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon

  • Strategic Arms Limitation I Treaty Signed

    The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union, the Cold War superpowers, on the issue of arms control. The two rounds of talks and agreements were SALT I and SALT II.
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    President Gerald Ford

  • North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam

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    President Jimmy Carter

  • SALT II Treaty Signed

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    President Ronald Reagan

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    Yuri Andropov

  • US Troops overthrow regime in Grenada

  • President Reagan proposes Strategic Defence Initiative

    Strategic Defense Initiative. Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), byname Star Wars, proposed U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks—as originally conceived, from the Soviet Union. The SDI was first proposed by President Ronald Reagan in a nationwide television address on March 23, 1983.
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    Konstantin Chernenko

  • Iran-Contra Affair

    Iran–Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo.[3] They hoped, thereby, to fund the Contras in Nicaragua while at the same time negotiating the release of several U.S. hostages.
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    Mikhail Gorbachev

  • Gorbachev ends economic aid to Soviet satellites

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

  • Iran-Contra Affair revealed to public

  • Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan

  • China puts down protests for democracy

  • Poland becomes independent

  • Hungary becomes independent

  • Berlin wall falls

  • Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania (end of soviet empire)