Cold War Timeline 1943-91
- Created by: Ben James Campbell
- Created on: 29-05-17 13:37
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- 1943 - Tehran Conference
- 1945 - Yalta Conference
- 1945 - End of WW2
- 1945 - Potsdam Conference
- 1946 - Long Telegram
- 1946 - Noikov's Telegram
- 1946 - Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
- 1947 - Truman Doctrine
- 1947 - Marshall Plan (Aid)
- 1947 - COMINFORM
- 1948/9 - Berlin Blockade / Airlift
- 1949 - COMECON
- 1949 - Formation of NATO
- 1953 - Stalin Dies
- 1955 - Warsaw Pact
- 1956 - Hungarian Uprising
- 1961 - Bay of Pigs
- 1961 - Berlin Wall Built
- 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis
- 1963 - Hotline + Limited Test Ban Treaty
- 1967-8 - Détente
- 1968 - Prague Spring
- 1972 - SALT 1
- 1975 - Helsinki Conference + Apollo-Soyuz Mission
- 1979 - Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
- 1980 - Carter Doctrine + Boycott of Olympic Games
- 1983 - Reagan's 'Evil Empire' + SDI
- 1985 - Gorbachev becomes leader of USSR
- Perestroika -Restructuring + Glasnost - Openness
- 1985 - Geneva Summit
- 1986 - Chernobyl Explosion
- 1986 - Reykjavik Summit
- 1987 - INF Treaty
- 1989 - Fall of Berlin Wall
- 1990 - CFE Agreement
- 1991 - Warsaw Pact Dissolved
- 1991 - START 1
- Limits on non-nuclear forces
- 1991 - Warsaw Pact Dissolved
- 1990 - CFE Agreement
- No nuclear missiles with ranges of 500-5500km
- 1989 - Fall of Berlin Wall
- 1987 - INF Treaty
- 1986 - Reykjavik Summit
- 1986 - Chernobyl Explosion
- 1985 - Gorbachev becomes leader of USSR
- USA would not let USSR get control in Middle-East
- 1983 - Reagan's 'Evil Empire' + SDI
- 1980 - Carter Doctrine + Boycott of Olympic Games
- Greater cooperation w/ Europe
- 1979 - Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
- 1975 - Helsinki Conference + Apollo-Soyuz Mission
- Brezhnev Doctrine
- Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
- 1972 - SALT 1
- 1967 - Outer Space Treaty
- 1968 - Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
- 1968 - Prague Spring
- Direct link
- Banned testing of Nuclear weapons in space, sea, above ground
- 1967-8 - Détente
- Naval Blockade, Missiles removed from Turkey in secret
- 1963 - Hotline + Limited Test Ban Treaty
- Because of Brain Drain + Symbolic importance of Berlin
- 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis
- 1961 - Berlin Wall Built
- 200,000 Soviet troops sent to crush it
- 1961 - Bay of Pigs
- Copy of NATO but more for control
- 1956 - Hungarian Uprising
- Destalinisation
- 1955 - Warsaw Pact
- 1953 - Stalin Dies
- Prevent Trade w/ West + economic development in East
- 1949 - Formation of NATO
- Stalin looked agressive
- 1949 - COMECON
- Extend Stalin's Control + Reject Warsaw Pact
- 1948/9 - Berlin Blockade / Airlift
- $13b to Europe's economies
- 1947 - COMINFORM
- World had a choice, America must fight for liberty
- 1947 - Marshall Plan (Aid)
- 1947 - Truman Doctrine
- Russian in American Embassy > Stalin
- 1946 - Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
- American in Russian Embassy > Truman
- 1946 - Noikov's Telegram
- 1946 - Long Telegram
- 1945 - Potsdam Conference
- 1945 - End of WW2
- 1945 - Yalta Conference
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