History Cold War Timeline IB History

Yalta Conference (February 4-11, 1945) Potsdam Conference (July 17- August 2, 1945) US Uses Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) US Atomic Bomb Nagasaki (August 9, 1945) Japanese Surrender, End of WWII (August 15, 1945) Stalin Hostile Speech (February 9, 1946) Winston Churchill Iron Curtain Speech (March 5, 1946) Truman Doctrine (March 12, 1947) Marshall Plan (April 3, 1948) Berlin Blockade (June 24, 1948) NATO ratified (April 4, 1949) Berlin Blockade Ends (May 12, 1949) Russia Tests First Atomic Bomb (August 29, 1949) Mao Zedong Establishes the PRC (October 1, 1949) Chiang Kai-shek Creates Nationalist Government (December 1, 1949) Korean War Starts (June 25, 1950) Truman Fires MacArthur (April 11, 1951) Stalin Dies (March 5, 1953) Korean War Ends (July 27, 1953) Vietnam Split at 17th Parallel (July 21, 1954) Warsaw Pact Formed (May 14, 1955) Vietnam War Starts (November 1, 1955) Khrushchev Secret Speech (February 25, 1956) USSR Sends Military Aid to Afghanistan (September 4, 1956) Suez Crisis (October 29, 1956) Sputnik Launched (October 4, 1957) Sputnik II Launched (November 3, 1957) Khrushchev Ultimatum (November 10, 1958) Fidel Castro Comes to Power in Cuba (February 16, 1959) JFK Elected (November 8, 1960) Cuba Aligns with USSR (December 19, 1960) Bay of Pigs Invasion (April 17, 1961) Construction of Berlin Wall Begins (August 17, 1961) Cuban Missile Crisis (October 16-28, 1962) JFK Assassinated (November 22, 1963) Gulf of Tonkin Incident (August 2, 1964) Publication of Pentagon Papers (June 13, 1971) Salt I Signed (May 26, 1972) Nixon Resigns (August 8, 1974) North Vietnam Defeats South Vietnam (April 30, 1975) US and China Establish Diplomatic Relations (January 1, 1979) SALT II Signed (June 17, 1979) Reagan Elected (November 4, 1980) Strategic Defense Initiative Proposed (March 23, 1983) Gorbachev Takes Power (March 15, 1985) INF Treaty Signed (December 8, 1987) Soviet Troops Withdraw from Afghanistan (February 15, 1989) Berlin Wall is Demolished (November 9, 1989) Soviet Union Disbanded (August 18, 1991) Yeltsin Becomes President of Russia (June 12, 1991) PHOTO OF GULF OF TONKIN INCIDENT PHOTO OF BERLIN WALL DEMOLITION PHOTO OF FALL OF SAIGON LINK TO WORKS CITED