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Timeline of The Cold War

The Cold War timeline outlines the major events between the 1940s-1980s that defined the escalating geopolitical tensions between the US and Soviet Union. It began with the Yalta Conference in 1945 and saw increasing conflicts like the Berlin Blockade, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, and Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Arms buildups like NATO and the Warsaw Pact formed opposing military alliances. The timeline ends with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, marking the end of the Cold War.

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Timeline of The Cold War

The Cold War timeline outlines the major events between the 1940s-1980s that defined the escalating geopolitical tensions between the US and Soviet Union. It began with the Yalta Conference in 1945 and saw increasing conflicts like the Berlin Blockade, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, and Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Arms buildups like NATO and the Warsaw Pact formed opposing military alliances. The timeline ends with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, marking the end of the Cold War.

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Timeline of the Cold War:

1940s

1945: February 4-11-- Yalta Conference Cold War Begins


1945: August 6 -- United States first used atomic bomb in war (A bomb was dropped
on Hiroshima + Nagasaki)
1945: August 8 -- Russia enters war against Japan
1945: August 14 -- Japanese surrender End of World War II
1946: March -- Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" Speech
1947: March -- Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War
1947: June -- Marshall Plan is announced
1948: February -- Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia
1948: June 24 -- Berlin Blockade begins
1949: July -- NATO ratified
1949: May 12 -- Berlin Blockade ends
1949: September -- Mao Zedong, a Communist, takes control of China
1949: September -- Soviets explode first atomic bomb

1950s

1950: February -- Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt


1950: June -- Korean War begins
1951: January 12 -- Federal Civil Defense Administration established
1953: June 19 -- Rosenberg executions
1953: July -- Korean War ends
1954: March -- KGB established
1954 -- CIA helps overthrow unfriendly regimes in Iran and Guatemala
1954: July -- Vietnam split at 17th parallel
1955: May -- Warsaw Pact formed
1956: October - November -- 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
1958: November -- Khrushchev demands withdrawal of troops from Berlin
1959: January -- Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro
1959: September -- Khrushchev visits United States; denied access to Disneyland

1960s

1960: May -- Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet
territory
1960: November -- John F. Kennedy elected President
1961: April -- Bay of Pigs invasion
1961: July -- Kennedy requests 25% spending increase for military
1961: August 13 -- Berlin border closed
1961: August 17 -- Construction of Berlin Wall begins
1962: -- U.S. involvement in Vietnam increased
1962: October -- Cuban Missile Crisis
1963: July -- Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified
1963: November -- President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas
1964: August -- Gulf of Tonkin incident
1965: April -- U.S. Marines sent to Dominican Republic to fight Communism
1965: July -- Announcement of dispatching of 150,000 U.S. troops to Vietnam
1968: January -- North Korea captured U.S.S. Pueblo
1968: August -- Soviet troops crush Czechoslovakian revolt
1969: July 20 -- Apollo 11 lands on the moon

1970s

1970: April -- President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia


1972: July -- SALT I signed
1973: January -- Cease fire in Vietnam between North Vietnam and United States
1973: September -- United States helps overthrow Chile government
1973: October -- Egypt and Syria attack Israel; Egypt requests Soviet aid
1974: August -- President Nixon resigns
1975: April 17 -- North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam
1979: July -- SALT II signed
1979: November -- Shah of Iran overthrown; Iranian Hostage Crisis

1980s

1983: -- President Reagan proposes Strategic Defense Initiative


1983: October -- U.S. troops overthrow regime in Grenada
1985: -- Iran-Contra Affair (arms sold to Iran, profits used to support contras in
Nicaragua)
1985: -- Mikhail Gorbachev ascends to power in Soviet Union
1986: -- Gorbachev ends economic aid to Soviet satellites
1986: October -- Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear
missiles from Europe
1986: November -- Iran-Contra Affair revealed to public
1987: October -- Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove all medium and short-range
nuclear missiles by signing treaty
1989: January -- Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan
1989: June -- China puts down protests for democracy; Poland becomes independent
1989: September -- Hungary becomes independent
1989: November -- Berlin Wall fall

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