البدراني عضو فعال
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| موضوع: Cold War Major Events الثلاثاء أكتوبر 04, 2011 12:42 pm | |
| Cold War Major Events 1945 Feb "Yalta Conference". --------------------- 1945 May World War II ends in Europe --------------------
1945 Aug US drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan --------------------
1945 Aug "Potsdam Conference" in which US ,USSR and Britain divide up Europe --------------------
1946 Jan First East-European Communist government set up in Albania -------------------- 1947 Jan Communists seize power in Poland --------------------
1947 March Truman Doctrine announced --------------------
1948 June Berlin Airlift begins -------------------- 1949 April North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established -------------------- 19-5-1949 Berlin Airlift ends -------------------- 1949 Aug Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb -------------------- 1949 Oct Communists win Chinese Civil War --------------------
1950 June US and other UN members fight North Korean forces --------------------
27-7-1953 the Korean War ends --------------------
1953 Aug US sponsored coup overthrows Iranian government -------------------- 1954 June US sponsored coup overthrows Guatemalan government --------------------
1954 Sept Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) formed -------------------- 1955 May Warsaw Pact formed --------------------
1955 July First Summit Meeting between President Dwight Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev -------------------- 1956 Nov Red Army crushes a Hungarian Revolution -------------------- 1957 Oct Soviets launch first man-made satellite -------------------- 1959 Feb "Fidel Castro" becomes premier of Cuba, installs Communist government -------------------- 1961 Apr Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba -------------------- 1961 Aug East Germany builds Berlin Wall -------------------- 1962 June Sino-Soviet Conflict begins -------------------- 1962 Oct Cuban Missile Crisis -------------------- 1964 Oct China explodes its first atomic bomb -------------------- 1965 April US sends troops to the Dominican Republic -------------------- 1965 Aug US commits combat troops to South Vietnam -------------------- 1968 Aug Soviet Red Army crushes Czech Uprising -------------------- 1972 Feb President Richard Nixon visits China -------------------- 1973 Sept US supported the coup that overthrows Chilean government -------------------- 1973 US supported Israel by weapons in War( Israel against Egypt and Syria) -------------------- 1975 Apr Northern Communist forces annexes South Vietnam . -------------------- 1976 Feb Soviet and Cuban forces help install Communist government in Angola -------------------- 1979 Jan U S and China establish diplomatic relations -------------------- 1979 Dec Soviet Army invades Afghanistan
-------------------- 1980 Aug Polish shipyard workers strike, Solidarity Union formed -------------------- 1983 Dec U.S invades ( Grenada -------------------- 1985 Mar Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union, the following year he declares glasnost and perestroika -------------------- 1989 May Led by university students, over one million Chinese in Tiananmen Square demand reforms by the Chinese Communist government -------------------- 1989 Sept Solidarity forms the first post-war non-Communist government in Poland -------------------- 1989 Oct Hungary declares a non-Communist government -------------------- 1989 Nov East Germany allows unrestricted migration to West Germany -------------------- 1989 Dec Berlin Wall is demolished -------------------- 1990 May George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev agree to the ( reunification of Germany) in 1994 -------------------- 1991 Aug Hard-line Communists stage unsuccessful coup against Mikhail Gorbachev -------------------- 1991 Dec The Soviet Union is abolished Boris Yeltsin becomes President of Russia
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