Cold War Key Dates

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4th – 11th 1945 - Yalta Conference
Meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin to decide what would happen at the end of the war.
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August 6th 1945 - Hiroshima
The United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima
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August 8th 1945 - Nagasaki
The United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
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March 5th 1946 - Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech
hurchill delivers his ‘Sinews of Peace’ speech which contain the famous phrase “..an iron curtain has descended on Europe”
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March 12th 1947 - Truman Doctrine
President Truman promised to help any country facing a Communist takeover
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June 5th 1947 - Marshall Plan
This was a programme of economic aid offered by the United States to any European country. The plan was rejected outright by Stalin and any Eastern Bloc country considering accepting aid was reprimanded severely. Consequently the aid was only given t
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September 1947 - Cominform
The USSR set up Cominform (Communist Information Bureau) which was the Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers’ Parties responsible for the creation of the Eastern bloc
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June 1948 - Formation of West Germany
The French, USA and UK partitions of Germany were merged to form West Germany
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June 24th 1948 - Berlin Blockade and airlift
Russia’s response to the merger of the French, USA and UK partitions of Berlin was to cut all road and rail links to that sector. This meant that those living in Western Berlin had no access to food supplies and faced starvation. Food was brought to
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May 1949 - End of Berlin Blockade
Russia ended the blockade of Berlin
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April 4th 1949 - NATO formed
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation formed with member states Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States
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June 25th 1950 - Korean War
The Korean war began when North Korea invaded South Korea
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March 5th 1953 - Death of Stalin
Joseph Stalin died at the age of 74. He was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev
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July 27th 1953 - Korean War
The Korean war ended. North Korea remained affiliated with Russia while South Korea was affiliated with the USA
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May 14th 1955 - Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was formed with member states East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union
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October 23rd 1956 - Hungarian Revolution
This began as a Hungarian protest against Communist rule in Budapest. It quickly gathered momentum and on 24th October Soviet tanks entered Budapest. The tanks withdrew on 28th October and a new government was formed which quickly moved to introduce
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November 1st 1957 - Space Race
USSR Sputnik II carried Laika the dog, the first living creature to go into space
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1960 - Paris East/West talks
Talks between Khrushchev and Eisenhower concerning the fate of Germany broke down when a USA U2 spy plane was shot down over Russian airspace
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April 12th 1961 - Space Race
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human being in space
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April 17th 1961 - Bay of Pigs Invasion
A force of Cuban exiles, trained by the CIA, aided by the US government attempted to invade Cuba and overthrow the Communist government of Fidel Castro. The attempt failed
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August 13th 1961 - Berlin Wall
Berlin wall built and borders sealed between East and West Germany
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October 14th 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis
A US spy plane reported sighting the construction of a Soviet nuclear missile base in Cuba. President Kennedy set up a naval blockade and demanded the removal of the missiles. War was averted when the Russians agreed on 28th October to remove the wea
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July 1965 - Vietnam War
150,000 US troops sent to Vietnam
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August 20th 1968 - Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
Warsaw Pact forces entered Czechoslovakia in a bid to stop the reforms known as ‘Prague Spring’ instigated by Alexander Dubcek. When he refused to halt his programme of reforms Dubcek was arrested
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April 30th 1970 - Vietnam War
President Richard Nixon ordered US troops to go to Cambodia
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May 26th 1972 - SALT
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty signed between the US and USSR
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August 15th 1973 - Vietnam
The Paris Peace Accords ended American involvement in Vietnam
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31st July 1991 - START
The Strategic Arms Reduction treaty was signed between Russia and the USA
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25th December 1991 - Gorbachev resigned
Mikhail Gorbachev resigned. The hammer and sickle flag on the Kremlin was lowered
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6th December 1991 - End of the Soviet Union
Russia formally recognised the end of the Soviet Union
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