Cold War Major Events

1945 Feb
"Yalta Conference".
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1945 May
World War II ends in Europe
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1945 Aug
US drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
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1945 Aug
"Potsdam Conference" in which US ,USSR and Britain divide up Europe
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1946 Jan
First East-European Communist government set up in Albania
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1947 Jan
Communists seize power in Poland
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1947 March
Truman Doctrine announced
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1948 June
Berlin Airlift begins  
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1949 April
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established
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19-5-1949
Berlin Airlift ends
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1949 Aug
Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb
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1949 Oct
Communists win Chinese Civil War
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1950 June
US and other UN members fight North Korean forces
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27-7-1953
the Korean War ends
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1953 Aug
US sponsored coup overthrows Iranian government
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1954 June
US sponsored coup overthrows Guatemalan government
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1954 Sept
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) formed
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1955 May
Warsaw Pact formed
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1955 July
First Summit Meeting between President Dwight Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev
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1956 Nov
Red Army crushes a Hungarian Revolution
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1957 Oct
Soviets launch first man-made satellite
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1959 Feb
"Fidel Castro" becomes premier of Cuba, installs Communist government
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1961 Apr
Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba
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1961 Aug
East Germany builds Berlin Wall
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1962 June
Sino-Soviet Conflict begins
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1962 Oct
Cuban Missile Crisis
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1964 Oct
China explodes its first atomic bomb
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1965 April  
US sends troops to the Dominican Republic
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1965 Aug
US  commits combat troops to South Vietnam
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1968 Aug
Soviet Red Army crushes Czech Uprising
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1972 Feb
President Richard Nixon visits China
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1973 Sept
US supported the coup that overthrows Chilean government
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1973
US supported Israel by weapons in War( Israel against Egypt and Syria)
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1975 Apr
Northern Communist forces  annexes South Vietnam .
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1976 Feb
Soviet and Cuban forces help install Communist government in Angola
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1979 Jan
U S  and China establish diplomatic relations
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1979 Dec
Soviet   Army invades Afghanistan

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1980 Aug
Polish shipyard workers strike, Solidarity Union formed
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1983 Dec
U.S invades ( Grenada
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1985 Mar
 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union, the following year he declares glasnost and     perestroika
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1989 May
Led by university students, over one million Chinese in Tiananmen Square demand reforms by the Chinese Communist government
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1989 Sept
Solidarity forms the first post-war non-Communist government in Poland
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1989 Oct
Hungary declares a non-Communist government
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1989 Nov
East Germany allows unrestricted migration to West Germany
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1989 Dec
Berlin Wall  is demolished
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1990 May
George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev agree to the ( reunification of Germany) in 1994
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1991 Aug
Hard-line Communists stage unsuccessful coup against Mikhail Gorbachev
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1991 Dec
The Soviet Union is abolished
Boris Yeltsin becomes President of Russia

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