The Cold War
Category: Other
Updated: 7 May 2018
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Created byDanny Gallagher
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Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech (1946)Truman Doctrine (Mar)Warsaw Pact formed (1955)NATO formed (Apr)Stalin dies (5th Mar 1953)De-Stalinization begins (Feb 1956)Camp David conference (1959)U2 spy plane shot down (1960)Vienna conference (1961)Berlin Ultimatum (1958)US have atom bomb (1945)Sputnik launched (1957)Khrushchev comes to power (1953)Khrushchev sacked (1964)Brezhnev Doctrine (1968)Apollo - Soyuz mission (1975)Carter Doctrine (1980)"Star Wars" Program (23rd Mar)Brezhnev dies (Nov 1982)Sinatra Doctrine (1989)Gorbachev appointed (1990)The Cold War officially ends (3rd Dec)Geneva Conference (Nov)Reykjavik Conference (Oct)Washington conference (Dec)Moscow conference (May)Malta conference (1989)Soviet Union formally dissolved (Dec)Germany reunited (1991)First democratic elections take place in Romania (1990)Hungary becomes a multi-party state (1988)Free Trade Union wins the Polish elections (1989)Communist party wins Bulgarian elections (1990)Communists resign out of Czechoslovakia (24th Nov)The Baltic republics leave (1990)Gorbachev resigns (25th Dec)"Gang of Eight" declare a coup and prevent Gorbachev from returning to MoscowPeriods
Marshall Aid (Apr 3rd 1948 + 4 years)World War 2Vietnam War (1955 - 1975)DetenteAndropov appointed (Nov 1982 - Feb 1984)Chernenko appointed (Feb 1984 - Mar 1985)Washington conference (May - Jun)Grouping
End of WW2 conferences
Hungarian Uprising
Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Crisis
Czechoslovakian Crisis
Treaties
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