Cold War Timeline Edexcel GCSE
Updated 4 Jun 2019
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Created byShrey Goswami
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Events
Long and Novikov Telegrams - 1946Iron Curtain speech - 1946Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan - 1947Stalin Dies - 1953Cominform - 1947Berlin Crisis/Blockade/Airlift -1948Federal Republic of Germany - 1949Democratic Republic of Germany - 1949NATO - 1949Comecon - 1949USSR first atomic bomb test - 1949Both superpowers possessed hydrogen bombs - 1953Tests biggest hydrogen bomb - 1954Warsaw Pact - 1955Khrushchev's secret speech - 1956Hungarian Uprising - 1956US armaments
increased 20% - 1957NASA - 1957Fidel Castro - 1959Berlin Crisis - 1961Berlin Wall - 1961Ich bin ein Berliner - 1963Bay OF Pigs - 1961Cuban Missile Crisis - 1962Partial Test Ban Treaty - 1963Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty - 1968Prague Spring - 1968Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia - August 1968Brezhnev Doctrine - 1968Invasion on Afghanistan - 1979Carter Doctrine - 1979Boycotting Moscow Olympics - 1980New US Defence system - 1981START meetings - 1982USSR boycott LA Olympics - 1984(SDI) Star Wars -1983Glasnost and Perestroika - 1985Reykjavik meeting - 1986Intermediate Nucleus Forces Treaty - 1987Rejection of Brezhnev doctrine - 1988Sinatra Doctrine - 1989Berlin Wall fell - 1990Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE) - 1990Start I Treaty - 1991Gorbachev resigned - December 1991Periods
Stalin's Reign 1922-53Roosevelt
1932-45Harry Truman
1945-53Dwight D. Eisenhower
1953-61JFK
1961-63Richard Nixon
1969-74Jimmy Carter
1977-81Ronald Reagan
1981-89Nikita Khrushchev
1953-64Leonid Brezhnev
1964-82Mikhail Gorbachev
1985-91George Bush
1989 - 91Grouping
Grand Alliance
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