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1940s
- 1945:
Yalta Conference
- 1945:
Potsdam Conference
- 1945:
Atomic Bomb Drop on Hiroshima
- 1946:
“Sinews of Peace” Speech
- 1946:
Stalin Replies to the “Iron Curtain Speech”
- 1947:
Truman Doctrine
- 1947:
Marshall Plan
- 1948:
Berlin Blockade begins
- 1949:
NATO Ratified
- 1949:
Berlin Blockade ends
- 1949:
Mao Zedong takes control
1950s
- 1950:
Korean War begins
- 1951:
Federal Civil Defence Administration established
- 1953:
Korean War ends
- 1954:
Vietnam Split at the 17th Parallel
- 1955:
Warsaw Pact formed
- 1956:
USSR sent tanks to Poland
- 1956:
Suez Crisis begins
- 1957:
Sputnik launched into orbit
- 1959:
Fidel Castro takes over Cuba
- 1959:
The Kitchen Debate
1960s
- 1960:
USA spy plane shot down over Soviet territory
- 1960:
JFK elected president of USA
- 1960:
Cuba allies with the Soviet Union
- 1961:
Bay of Pigs Invasion
- 1961:
Berlin Border Closed
- 1961:
Construction of Berlin Wall begins
- 1962:
Cuban Missile Crisis
- 1964:
200 000 US troops dispatched to Vietnam
- 1966:
B-52s bomb North Vietnam
- 1968:
Soviets defeat Czechoslovakian revolt
- 1969:
Apollo 11 lands on the moon
1970s
- 1971:
Publication of the Pentagon Papers
- 1973:
Egypt and Syria attack Israel
- 1975:
Fall of Saigon
- 1979:
US and China establish diplomatic relations
- 1979:
SALT II signed
- 1979:
Soviet forces invade Afghanistan
1980s
- 1983:
President Reagan proposes Strategic Defense Initiative
- 1985:
Mikhail Gorbachev - Glasnost and Perostroika
- 1986:
Reykjavik Summit
- 1987:
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty
- 1989:
Soviets withdraw from Afghanistan
- 1989:
Berlin Wall is demolished
1990s
- 1990:
Boris Yeltsin elected
- 1990:
Germany reunited
