GCSE AQA Cold War timeline 1945-1972

Yalta Conference Potsdam Conference Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima Poland establishes communism Hungarian communists become the largest party Czechoslovakian communists control coalition Czechoslovak coup d'etat Romanian communists abolish the monarchy Tito wins Yugoslavian election The Long Telegram Left wing coalition in Bulgaria Churchill's Iron Curtain speech Truman Doctrine created Cominform created Cominform dissolved Yugoslavia expelled from Cominform Marshall Plan created Comecon Formed London Conference Mini-blockade and plane collision Easter Parade West Germany formed East Germany formed People's Republic of China founded Treaty of Friendship signed NSC-68 Presented Republic of Korea founded Democratic People's Republic of Korea founded China enters the Korean war MacArthur dismissed Stalemate is reached Korean armistice signed Geneva Conference Declaration of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam NATO formed Treaty of Dunkirk signed The Treaty of Brussels signed West Germany joins NATO Warsaw Pact formed Sputnik 1 launch Sputnik 2 launch Explorer 1 launched Luna 3 launched Sputnik 5 launched Ham launched First Man in Space American in Space American Orbit Telstar 1 launched First Woman in Space First Space Walk Apollo 8 Launched Apollo 11 Lands Salyut 1 launched Soviet Nuclear Test American Hydrogen Bomb Test Soviet Fusion Test Soviet Hydrogen Bomb Test Soviets test Massive H-Bomb First U2 test flight U2 program approved First Series of U2 flights end Spies in the U2 U2 flights continue Khrushchev's visit to the USA U2 Crisis Paris Peace Summit Formation of the Hungarian People's Republic Rajk Executed Secret Speech Student Protests in Budapest Nagy returns as leader Nagy starts reformation Radical reform and Independance Operation Whirlwind Berlin Wall went up Checkpoint Charlie (standoff) Vienna Summit Sik Reforms start in practice Dubcek Reforms Warsaw Letter issued Invasion of Czechoslovakia Brezhnev Doctrine SALT I signed Moncada Barracks Attack Castro released Bay of Pigs invasion U2 flyover of Cuba Kennedy's speech Response Soviet Ship passes US forces assemble Khrushchev's first letter Close Conflict and Resolution Partial Test Ban Treaty Signed Viet Cong formed Paris Peace Accords Stalin Khrushchev Brezhnev Truman Eisenhower Kennedy Johnson Nixon Roosevelt Soviet Expansion Greek Civil War Berlin Blockade Berlin Airlift Chinese Civil War Korean War Indochina War The Space Race The Arms Race Detente Cuban Revolution Vietnam War