THE COLD WAR
& SUPERPOWER
RELATIONS
1941-1991
, COLD WAR TIMELINE
1941 - 1991:
1941 - Grand Alliance formed
1943 - Tehran conference
Feb. 1945 - Yalta conference
Jul & Aug. 1945 - Potsdam conference
Aug. 1945 - Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Feb. 1946 - Long telegram speech
Mar. 1946 - Iron curtain speech
Sep. 1946 - Novikov telegram sent
Mar. 1947 - Truman doctrine
Jun. 1947 - Marshall aid
1948 - Berlin blockade
Jan. 1949 - Comecon created
Apr. 1949 - NATO formed
May. 1955 - Warsaw pact formed
Jul. 1956 - Hungarian uprising
1958 - Berlin ultimatum
Jan. 1959 - Cuban revolution
May. 1959 - Geneva summit
Sep. 1959 - Camp david summit
May. 1960 - Paris summit, U2 spy planes
1961- Vienna summit
Aug. 1961 - Bay of pigs
1961 - Berlin wall built
1962 - Cuban missile crisis
Oct. 1962 - 13 day blockade by USA
Oct. 1962 - USSR agree to remove missiles from Cuba
, COLD WAR TIMELINE
1941 - 1991:
1963 - ‘Ich bin ein berliner’ speech
Jun. 1963 - Telephone hotline set up
Aug. 1963 - Limited treaty ban treaty
1967 - Outer space treaty agreed
1968 - Brezhnev doctrine
1972 - SALT 1
1975 - Helsinki agreements
1979 - USSR invasion of Afghanistan The ‘Second Cold War’
1979 - Carter doctrine
1979 - SALT 2
1980 - Moscow olympics
1983 - Reagan ‘evil empire’ speech
1983 - SDI announced by Reagan
1984 - Los Angeles olympics
1985 - Gorbachev becomes leader of USSR
1986 - Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster
1987 - INF treaty agreed by Gorbachev
1989 - Fall of the Berlin Wall
1991 - Warsaw pact ends
1991 - Gorbachev removed from power
& SUPERPOWER
RELATIONS
1941-1991
, COLD WAR TIMELINE
1941 - 1991:
1941 - Grand Alliance formed
1943 - Tehran conference
Feb. 1945 - Yalta conference
Jul & Aug. 1945 - Potsdam conference
Aug. 1945 - Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Feb. 1946 - Long telegram speech
Mar. 1946 - Iron curtain speech
Sep. 1946 - Novikov telegram sent
Mar. 1947 - Truman doctrine
Jun. 1947 - Marshall aid
1948 - Berlin blockade
Jan. 1949 - Comecon created
Apr. 1949 - NATO formed
May. 1955 - Warsaw pact formed
Jul. 1956 - Hungarian uprising
1958 - Berlin ultimatum
Jan. 1959 - Cuban revolution
May. 1959 - Geneva summit
Sep. 1959 - Camp david summit
May. 1960 - Paris summit, U2 spy planes
1961- Vienna summit
Aug. 1961 - Bay of pigs
1961 - Berlin wall built
1962 - Cuban missile crisis
Oct. 1962 - 13 day blockade by USA
Oct. 1962 - USSR agree to remove missiles from Cuba
, COLD WAR TIMELINE
1941 - 1991:
1963 - ‘Ich bin ein berliner’ speech
Jun. 1963 - Telephone hotline set up
Aug. 1963 - Limited treaty ban treaty
1967 - Outer space treaty agreed
1968 - Brezhnev doctrine
1972 - SALT 1
1975 - Helsinki agreements
1979 - USSR invasion of Afghanistan The ‘Second Cold War’
1979 - Carter doctrine
1979 - SALT 2
1980 - Moscow olympics
1983 - Reagan ‘evil empire’ speech
1983 - SDI announced by Reagan
1984 - Los Angeles olympics
1985 - Gorbachev becomes leader of USSR
1986 - Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster
1987 - INF treaty agreed by Gorbachev
1989 - Fall of the Berlin Wall
1991 - Warsaw pact ends
1991 - Gorbachev removed from power
