Cold War

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Date/period

Event(s)

1939

August, 1944

January, 1945

February, 1945

July, 1945

5 March, 1946

February, 1947

12 March, 1947

June, 1947

September, 1947

24 June 1948 - 12 May 1949(January, 1949: formation of the Council of Mutual Economic Aid (Comecon) to rival the Marshall Plan)(April, 1949: The North Atlantic Organisation Treaty (NATO) was formed. This was a military alliance that promised to help if any of the members were attacked. This was significant because it was the first time America had signed up to a peacetime military alliance; showed the determination of its members to stand up to communism)

August, 1949

1959

Summer of 1960

January, 1961

April, 1961

July, 1961

September, 1961

December, 1961

September, 1962 

14th October, 1962

16th October

22nd October

23rd October

24th October

26th October

27th October

28th October

1963

1964

Background to Vietnam

1963

1964

July, 1965

14 November

22 January - 7 April 1968

Tet Offensive, 30 January - 26 February 1968

1 May - 29 June, 1970

30 March, 1972

30 April, 1975

1976

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