Cold war

Yalta Conference Potsdam Conference Hiroshima Nagasaki Japanese surrender, end of WWII Stalin "hostile" speech communism and capitalism incompatible Iron Curtain Speech by Winston Churchill Iran crisis Truman demands Russia leave Iran Turkish straits crisis reaches climax "Long Telegram" by George Kennan Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan The "X" Article (Kennan) Creation of the CIA Creation of Cominform Creation of NATO Berlin Blockade (start) Berlin Blockade (end) Russia tests its first atomic bomb Creation of PRC KMT fled to Taiwan French defeated at Dien Bien Phu Geneva summit splits Vietnam in two Death of Stalin Plan Totality Operation Unthinkable Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship Taiwan Straits Crisis (China bombing Quemoy) Taiwan Straits Crisis (China bombing Quemoy again) Khrushchev "secret speech" Moscow Conference USSR cancels Sino-Soviet agreement on atomic co-op Soviet proposal for joint naval arrangement Sino-Indian border conflict Peaceful Coexistence China ecouraged Albania and Romania to assert greater independence from Moscow USSR pulls out all economic aid and advisers from China China explodes first nuclear bomb USSR went about strengthening its ties with Mongolia, North Korea and North Vietnam Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia Ussuri River Dispute SINO SOVIET SPLIT Kissinger visits China Shanghai Communique Warsaw Pact Truman becomes US president Eisenhower becomes US president Kennedy becomes US president Kennedy assassinated Johnson becomes US president Nixon becomes US president Ford becomes US president Carter becomes US president Reagan becomes US president Death of Mao Zedong Black Thursday Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act Collapse of Kreditanstalt Britain drops the gold standard US drops the gold standard Collapse of Bank of United States Collapse of Danat-Bank Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor London Economic Conference Manchurian Crisis Lytton Comission Japan leaving LON Germany leaving LON Roosevelt becomes US president Hoover becomes US president Anglo-German Naval Agreement Hitler remilitarises Rhineland Hitler brings back military conscription Rome-Berlin Axis Anti-Comintern Pact (Japan) Anschluss Munich Conference Invasion of Sudetenland Hitler invades rest of Czechoslovakia Hitler invades Poland START WW2 Chamberlain meets Hitler in Godesberg Nazi-Soviet Pact Hoover suspends German debts for a year Lausanne Conference Hitler stops making payments Johnson Act SALT-I SALT-II Moscow Treaty Basic Treaty Helsinki Agreements Soviet invasion of Afghanistan END OF DETENTE Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Khrushchev becomes head of Communist Party Brezhnev becomes head of Communist Party Andropov becomes head of Communist Party Chernenko becomes head of Communist Party Gorbachev becomes head of Communist Party Iran Hostage Crisis Strategic Defense Initiative (STAR WARS) Reagan Doctrine Chernobyl Geneva Summit Gorbachev suspends countermeasures applied in response to NATO INF deployments Soviet Nuclear Disarmament Initiative Reykjavik Summit INF Treaty Solidarity wins elections in Poland Velvet Revolution Soviet coup d'état attempt COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION Korean War Great Leap Forward Cultural Revolution bank failures Abyssinian Crisis