Cold War Timeline

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Political map of the Cold War.

The Cold War started in 1944 and the end has been disputed; either 1990 or 1991.

Historical background

Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive- Soviet Soldiers in Lvivh, 13 July 1944 – 29 August 1944. The great clash of Communism over Nazism. Hungary, SS Galitzen fought on this front. Nazi Germany lost to the USSR. Both Germany and the USSR were traumatized for many years a afterwards.

The event

1940s

• 1944 End of World War Two
• 1945 Yalta Conference
• 1945 Potsdam Conference
• 1946:

1. February - The Long Telegram
2. March - Winston Churchill's 'Iron Curtain Speech '

• 1947: 

1. March - Truman Doctrine
2. June - Marshall Plan

1950s

• 1950 Treaty Of Friendship
• 1950 NATO
• 1951-1953 Korean War
• 1953-1961 President Eisenhower
• 1954 Domino Theory
• 1955 -1958 Quemoy/Matsu
• 1956 Poland
• 1956  Khruschev's Secret Speech
• 1956 Hungarian Uprising
• 1959-1961  Mao's Great Leap Forward
• 1959 Cuban Revolution

1960s

• 1960 Budapest Meeting
• 1962 Sino-Indian War & Indo-China
• 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
• 1968 Prague Spring
• 1969 Ussuri River Conflict

1970s

• 1972 Nixon's Visit to China
• Ping Pong Diplomacy

Also see

1. Cold War secret police organisations
2. Cold War radio jamming
3. Cold War radio propaganda
4. The Cold War
5. Berlin airlift