Cold War Timeline

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February 4th – 11th 1945 – Yalta Conference

May 8th 1945 – V E Day 

July 17th – August 2nd 1945 – Potsdam conference 

August 6th 1945 – Hiroshima 

August 8th 1945 – Nagasaki 

August 14th 1945 – V J Day 

September 2nd 1945 – Vietnam Independence

March 5th 1946 – Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech 

March 12th 1947 – Truman Doctrine

June 5th 1947 – Marshall Plan

September 1945 – Cominform

June 1948 – Formation of West Germany

June 24th 1948 – Berlin Blockade

May 1949 – End of Berlin Blockade

April 4th 1949 – NATO formed

June 25th 1950 – Korean War

March 5th 1953 – Death of Stalin

July 27th 1953 – Korean war

Summer 1954 – Geneva Accords

May 14th 1955 – Warsaw Pact

October 23rd 1956 – Hungarian Revolution

October 30th 1956 – Suez Crisis

November 1st 1957 – Space Race 

1960 – Paris East/West talks

April 12th 1961 – Space Race

April 17th 1961 – Bay of Pigs Invasion

August 13th 1961 – Berlin Wall

October 14th 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis

November 22nd 1963 – JFK Assassination

October 15th 1964 – USSR

July 1965 – Vietnam War

August 20th 1968 – Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia

December 21st 1968 – Space Race 

July 20th 1969 – Space Race

April 30th 1970 – Vietnam War

September 3rd 1971 – Four Power Agreement Berlin

May 26th 1972 – SALT

August 15th 1973 – Vietnam

April 17th 1975 – Cambodia Killing fields

April 30th 1975 – Vietnam

July 1975 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

January 20th 1977 – Carter President

November 4th 1979 – Iranian hostage crisis

December 24th 1979 – Afghanistan 

July 1980 – Olympic Boycott by USA

December 13th 1980 – Poland

January 20th 1981 – Iranian hostage crisis ended

June 1982 – START

July 1984 – Olympic boycott by Russia

March 11th 1985 – Govbachov leader of USSR

April 26th 1986 – Chernobyl Disaster

June 1987 – Glasnost and Perestroika

February 15th 1989 – Afghanistan

June 4th 1989 – Tiananmen Square

August 1989 – Poland

October 23rd 1989 – Hungary

November 9th 1989 – Fall of the Berlin Wall

November 17th – December 29th 1989 – Velvet Revolution

December 2nd, 3rd 1989 – Malta Summit

December 16th – 25th 1989 – Romanian Revolution

October 3rd 1990 – German reunification

July 1st 1991 – End of Warsaw Pact

July 31st 1991 – START

December 25th 1991 – Gorbachev resigned

December 26th 1991 – End of the Soviet Union

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