Cold War Timeline:
• 1904-1905: Russo- Japanese War
• 14 August 1941: Atlantic Charter
• 28 November 1943: Tehran Conference
• End of 1944: Germany would lose the war
• 1945: Soviets were growing.
• 4-11 Feb 1945: Yalta Conference
• May 1945: Germany surrendered
• May 1945: America entered Berlin West, Russia from the East- celebrated victory 3years later
• 17 July- 2 August 1945: Potsdam Conference
• 6 August 1945: USA bomb Hiroshima
• 9 August 1945: USA bomb Nagasaki
• 1945: USA finish it’s A-bomb
• 1946:USA realised there needed to be a change of tactics- Russia to be opposed- division of the 2: iron-curtain
• December 1946- UK and US unite German Zones for economic purpose
• January 1947: Britain and US combined their zone- Bizonia
• May 1947: Policy of Containment and Truman Doctrine
• June 1947: Marshal Plan
• 1947: Cold war began
• 1947: Stalin creates Cominform
• 1948: West Allies introduced a new currency.
• 1948: Cold War nearly became a ‘Hot War’
• June 1948: May 1949: Berlin Blockade and Airlift
• 1948- 1961: Berlin Crisis
• 1949: Russia finishes the A-bomb
• January 1949: Stalin creates Comecon
• April 1949: Together with Canada and 9 western Europe Countries- formed a military defence structure- North
Atlantic Treaty Organisation(NATO)
• May 1949: France, Britain, America joined their zones together to form a new country- Federal Republic of
Germany known as West Germany lead by Konrad Adenauer
• October 1949: Communist Eastern Zone was formed into German Democratic Republic(GDR)/ East Germany
• 1949- China= Communist country.
• 1952: USA exploded its first H-bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• 1952: East-West border became part of the Iron Curtain
• November 1952- USA makes first H-bomb(x1000 more powerful than A-bomb
• August 1953: Soviet Union exploded its first H-bomb
• 1953: Uprising in East Germany
• 1953- Stalin died
• March 1954: H-bomb small enough to be dropped from a bomber
• September 1954- USSR drops a test H-bomb from a bomber
• 1954: SEATO
• 1955: CENTO
• 1904-1905: Russo- Japanese War
• 14 August 1941: Atlantic Charter
• 28 November 1943: Tehran Conference
• End of 1944: Germany would lose the war
• 1945: Soviets were growing.
• 4-11 Feb 1945: Yalta Conference
• May 1945: Germany surrendered
• May 1945: America entered Berlin West, Russia from the East- celebrated victory 3years later
• 17 July- 2 August 1945: Potsdam Conference
• 6 August 1945: USA bomb Hiroshima
• 9 August 1945: USA bomb Nagasaki
• 1945: USA finish it’s A-bomb
• 1946:USA realised there needed to be a change of tactics- Russia to be opposed- division of the 2: iron-curtain
• December 1946- UK and US unite German Zones for economic purpose
• January 1947: Britain and US combined their zone- Bizonia
• May 1947: Policy of Containment and Truman Doctrine
• June 1947: Marshal Plan
• 1947: Cold war began
• 1947: Stalin creates Cominform
• 1948: West Allies introduced a new currency.
• 1948: Cold War nearly became a ‘Hot War’
• June 1948: May 1949: Berlin Blockade and Airlift
• 1948- 1961: Berlin Crisis
• 1949: Russia finishes the A-bomb
• January 1949: Stalin creates Comecon
• April 1949: Together with Canada and 9 western Europe Countries- formed a military defence structure- North
Atlantic Treaty Organisation(NATO)
• May 1949: France, Britain, America joined their zones together to form a new country- Federal Republic of
Germany known as West Germany lead by Konrad Adenauer
• October 1949: Communist Eastern Zone was formed into German Democratic Republic(GDR)/ East Germany
• 1949- China= Communist country.
• 1952: USA exploded its first H-bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• 1952: East-West border became part of the Iron Curtain
• November 1952- USA makes first H-bomb(x1000 more powerful than A-bomb
• August 1953: Soviet Union exploded its first H-bomb
• 1953: Uprising in East Germany
• 1953- Stalin died
• March 1954: H-bomb small enough to be dropped from a bomber
• September 1954- USSR drops a test H-bomb from a bomber
• 1954: SEATO
• 1955: CENTO
