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Unit 1 International Relations The Era of the Cold War 1943-91-Chronological Timeline
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Key Topic 1: How did the Cold War Develop?
- 1941-Grand Alliance formed
- 28th November-1st December 1943-Tehran Conference
- 1944-Communists take control in Bulgaria
- 1945-Left wing coalition (including communists) takes control in Romania
- February 1945-Romanian king forced to take a communist prime minister
- 4th-11th February 1945-Yalta Conference
- April 1945-Roosevelt dies and Truman becomes President
- 25th April 1945-UN meets for the first time
- 8th May 1945-VE Day
- June 1945-Communists in control of Romanian government
- July-August 1945-Potsdam Conference
- November 1945-Communists win ‘free’ elections in Bulgaria
- 1945-Communists take control in Albania
- 1945-Communists (led by Tito) take control in Yugoslavia
- 1945-Communists win some seats in free elections in Hungary
- 1945-Left wing coalition (including communists) comes to power in Poland
- 1945-Left wing coalition (including communists) comes to power in Czechoslovakia in free elections
- 1945-U.S.A develops and uses atomic bomb
- 1946-Long Telegram
- 1946-Novikov Telegram
- 1946-Czech communists dominate government but start losing support
- 1947-Truman Doctrine
- 1947-Marshall Plan
- 1947-Cominform established
- 1947-Bizonia formed
- 1947-Communists elected to power in ‘free’ elections in Hungary
- 1947-Communists elected to power in ‘free’ elections in Romania
- 1947-Communist-sympathising workers strike in France
- 1st April 1948-Stalin begins the Berlin Blockade
- 26th June 1948-Truman begins the Berlin Airlift
- 1948-Paris Conference
- 1948-German assembly and constitution set up in Trizonia
- 1948-Deutschmark set up in Trizonia
- 1948-Tito splits from the USSR
- 1948-Czech government uses army to take control in Czechoslovakia
- May 1949-Stalin ends the Berlin Blockade
- September 1949-West Germany is created as an independent state (FRG)
- October 1949-East Germany is created as an independent state (GDR)
- April 1949-Formation of NATO
- 1949-U.S.S.R develops and tests its own atomic bomb
- 1949-Comecon established
- 1949-Rakosi becomes dictator of Hungary
- March 1952-U.S.A develops H-bomb small enough to be dropped from a bomber
- September 1952-U.S.S.R drops test H-bomb from a bomber
- November 1952-U.S.A detonates first hydrogen bomb
- March 1953-Stalin dies
- June 1953-Soviet tanks crush anti-communist protests in East Germany
- August 1953-U.S.S.R detonates its own hydrogen bomb
- 1955-Warsaw Pact formed
- 1955-U.S.S.R tests a bomb to match American H-bomb power (Sakharov’s Third Idea)
- 1955-U.S.A. develops B52 Stratofortress capable of bombing the Soviet Union
- 1955-U.S.S.R developing TU20 Bear aircraft
- 1956-Khrushchev gives de-Stalinisation ‘Secret Speech’
- July 1956-U.S.A develops U2 Spy plane
- July 1956-Rakosi is removed from Hungarian leadership
- 23rd October 1956-Budapest riots
- 31st October 1956-Nagy announces proposed Hungarian reforms
- 4th November 1956-Soviet troops and tanks enter Hungary
- 1956-Spain, Netherlands and Sweden boycott 1956 Olympic Games in protest for Hungary
- May 1957-U.S.S.R develops the first ICBM
- October 1957-U.S.S.R launches Sputnik I
- January 1958-U.S.A launches their own satellite
- 1959-U.S.A develops sophisticated Atlas and Minutemen ICBMs
- 1959-U.S.A develops Polaris missiles (fired from submarines)
- April 1961-Yuri Gagarin in space
- October 1961-USSR detonates largest ever H-bomb
- August 1963-Superpowers sign Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in Moscow
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Key Topic 2: Three Cold War crises: Berlin, Cuba a
- November 1958-Khrushchev declares control over all of Berlin
- November 1958-Khrushchev’s 6 month ultimatum
- 1958-America places nuclear weapons at UK bases
- January 1st 1959-Conclusion of the Cuban Revolution
- January 1959-Castro visits the USA
- May 1959-Castro’s Land Reform Act
- May 1959-Geneva Summit
- September 1959-Camp David Summit
- January 1960-Castro takes formerly USA owned Cuban land
- February 1960-Castro agrees to sell sugar to and buy oil from the USSR
- March 1960-American refinery refusal to accept Soviet oil-Castro nationalises the refineries
- May 1st 1960-USSR shoots down an American U2 spy plane
- May 1960-Paris Summit
- 1960-Soviet robotic spacecraft landed on the Moon
- January 1961-Kennedy becomes President
- 15th April 1961-Failed first US airstrike on Cuba
- 17th April 1961-Bay of Pigs invasion
- June 1961-Vienna Conference
- 12th August 1961-Berlin Wall erected around West Berlin
- August 1961-Khrushchev decides to place nuclear weapons on Cuba
- 27th October 1961-Berlin tank stand off
- 1961-America places nuclear weapons at Italian and Turkish bases
- 1961-Largest nuclear bomb ever tested (Tsar Bomba) is detonated
- 25th September 1962-114 Soviet ships with secret nuclear cargo sent to Cuba
- 16th October 1962-Kennedy informed of missiles on Cuba plan
- 24th October 1962-Soviet ships approach American blockade but pull back
- 28th October 1962-Khrushchev accepts secret deal for weapons removal
- June 20th 1963-Moscow-Washington hotline set up
- June 26th 1963-Kennedy’s speech to West Berlin
- August 1963-Limited Test Ban Treaty
- 1964-Khrushchev falls from power
- 1965-Superpowers’ nuclear power equal
- 1966-France leaves NATO
- 5th January 1968-Alexander Dubcek becomes Czech leader
- April 1968-Prague Spring
- 20th August 1968-Soviet tanks roll into Czechoslovakia (after Brezhnev Doctrine-early Aug)
- After 1968-Yugoslavia and Romania form alliance with China
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Key Topic 3: Why did the Cold War End?
- 1967-Outer Space Treaty
- 1968-Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
- 1969-Apollo 11 lands on the Moon
- 1972-SALT 1
- 1975-Apollo-Soyuz Mission
- 1975-Helsinki Agreements
- April 1978-Kabul Revolution
- June 1979-SALT 2
- October 1979-Assassination of President Mohammed Taraki
- October 1979-Hafizullah Amin claims Afghan presidency
- December 1979-Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
- 1979-‘Second Cold War’ begins
- 1980-American-led boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games
- 1980-Olympic Boycott Games held in Philadelphia
- 1981-Ronald Reagan becomes President
- 1981-America develops the Space Shuttle
- March 1983-Reagan’s ‘Evil Empire’ speech
- March 1983-Strategic Defence Initiative proposed by Reagan
- 1984-Soviet-led boycott of 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games
- 1984-USSR Friendship Games organised
- 1985-Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader
- November 1985-Geneva Summit of 1985
- 1985-End of the ‘Second Cold War’
- April 1986-Chernobyl disaster
- October 1986-Rejkjavik meeting
- December 1987-Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty
- December 1988-Gorbachev says ideology should play a smaller role in Soviet foreign affairs
- January 1989-George Bush Sr. becomes President
- February 1989-Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan
- June 1989-Polish communists defeated in free elections
- 9th November 1989-Berlin Wall falls
- November 1989-‘Velvet Revolution’ in Czechoslovakia
- December 1989-Malta Summit
- 1990-The CFE Agreement
- 1990-End of military co-operation in the Eastern Bloc
- 1990-Baltic states declare independence from Soviet Union
- June 1991-START 1
- July 1991-Warsaw Pact formally dissolved
- 19th August 1991-Soviet ‘Gang of Eight’ coup
- 21st August 1991-Gorbachev returns to Moscow-coup fails
- November 1991-New constitution introduced to give new republics more independence
- 25th December 1991-Gorbachev resigns-Dissolution of the Soviet Union
- 25th December 1991-Boris Yeltsin becomes new leader of the Russian Federation
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