| Timecheck
|
| Dates |
Events |
| 1945
|
End of World War II. First Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Yalta Conference. Potsdam Conference |
| 1946 |
'Iron
Curtain' speech |
| 1947 |
Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan |
| 1948 |
Soviet
Occupation of Eastern Europe complete |
| 1948-1949 |
Berlin Airlift |
| 1949
|
USSR
explodes Atom Bomb. NATO set up. West Germany set up |
| 1950 |
Korean
War begins |
| 1952
|
USA
explodes Hydrogen Bomb |
| 1953
|
War
ends in Korea in ceasefire |
| 1955
|
Warsaw
Pact set up |
| 1956
|
Hungary |
| 1957 |
USSR
launches first Sputnik. USSR launches first ICBM |
| 1958
|
U2
spy plane shot down |
| 1959
|
Berlin
Wall built. Bay of Pigs |
| 1960
|
Cuban
Missile Crisis |
| 1961
|
Hot
Line set up. Test Ban Treaty agreed |
| 1962
|
First
US combat troops in Vietnam |
| 1963
|
Prague
Spring. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty signed |
| 1964
|
USA
puts first man on the moon. SALT talks begin |
| 1965
|
Beginnings
of Detente process |
| 1972
|
SALT
1 signed. Nixon visits China. ICBM agreement signed |
|
1973 |
Last
US troops leave Vietnam |
| 1975
|
Helsinki
Confererence |
| 1980 |
Solidarity
comes to the fore in Poland |
| 1981
|
First
US cruise missiles in Europe |
| 1982 |
Gorbachev
becomes leader of USSR |
| 1983 |
Berlin
Wall comes down. End of USSR control of Eastern Europe |
| 1984 |
German
Reunification |
| 1985 |
Boris
Yeltsin becomes leader of USSR. |
