Cold War

By lolashezza

  • Death Franz Ferdinand

  • NKVD created

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    Comintern

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    First Red Scare

    US scared that Soviet spies are spreading commuinst messages to US citizens.

  • League of Nations created

  • Wall Street Crash

    Stock market crash.
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    Japan invades Korea

  • 'New Deal' by Roosevelt

  • HUAC created

    House of Un-American Activities Committee.
    Investigated possible communist allies.

  • Katyn Massacre

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    Tehran Conference

    Agreed that USSR would declare war to Japan.

  • Operation Overlord

    It was the code name for the invasion of Normandy.
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    Communist dominance increase in Albania

    93% population vote in favour of communism.

  • Lublin government created

    Buffer zone for USSR.
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    Yalta Conference

  • Death Roosevelt

  • Nazi Germany surrenders

  • Trinity Test

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    Potsdam Conference

  • UN created

  • UN created

  • Zhdanov Doctrine

  • Kennan's Telegram

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    Greek Civil War

    Communist uprising in the Greek government.

  • Novikov Telegram

    Answer to Kennan's long telegram.

  • Paris Peace Conference

  • USSR representative walk out of Paris Peace Conference

  • Hollywood 10 case

    Social impact.
    10 actors/screenwriters are put in jail for possible communist affiliations.

  • Reverse Course

    Focus on demilitarization of Japan changes to economic reconstruction.

  • GATT created

    General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
    Intended to boost economy after WW2.
    Means free trade in Japan.

  • Bizonia created

  • Truman Doctrine

  • George Marshall speech

    Speech about the Marshall Plan.

  • Cominform created

  • Hiss case

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    Operation Vittles/ Berlin Blockade

    Supplied West Berlin with food and supplies.

  • Marshall Plan signed

  • East and West Germany officially divided

  • West Germany joins OEEC

    Organisation for European Economic Cooperation.

  • Rosenberg case

    Accused of passing nuclear secrets to the USSR.

  • Stalin convinces Mao to send troops to North Korea

  • NSC-68

  • DPS created

    Line running through Japan to protect US territories.
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    First Phase Korean War

    No actions taken, Stalin and Mao think the US want a peace treaty.

  • Operation Chromite

    UN forces land in Inchon.
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    Second Phase Korean War

    MacArthur lands in Inchon and forces North troops to retaliate. Mao sends 300,000 Chinese troops into North Korea.
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    Third Phase Korean War

    Chinese troops invade Seoul. US indicated to USSR and China a ceasefire.

  • Armistice talks to end Korean War

  • San Francisco Peace Treaty

    Reestablishes relations between Japan and the allies.
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    Fourth Phase Korean War

    No further military movements. Makes USSR and China believe they actually want a peace settlement.

  • Eisenhower wins elections

  • Bonn Convention

    Grants West Germany full sovereignty.

  • NSA established

    National Safety Agency.
    Responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign and domestic intelligence

  • USA test first hydrogen based bomb

  • Armistice signed at Panmunjon

  • Sino-Soviet alliance

  • Death Stalin

  • East Berlin revolts against Soviet troops

  • Ceasefire agreed to end Korean War

  • NSC 162/2

    US nuclear arsenal must be expanded to meet communist threat.

  • SEATO created

    South East Asia Treaty Organisation.
    Similar to NATO but in Asia.
    Response to Sino-Soviet alliance.

  • McCarthy censured

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    Khrushchev in power

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    NSC 54 29/2

    • 1954: USA financially aids South Vietnam.
    • 1960: South Vietnam recieves 2 billion dollars.

  • Emmett Till case

    Young AA said inapropriate thing to a woman and was viciously killed after.

  • Austrian Treaty

  • Warsaw Pact

  • West Germany joins NATO

  • Geneva Summit

  • Khrushchev's 'Secret Speech'

  • Imre Nagy elected in Hungary

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    Polish Rising

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    Hungarian Rising

  • Ike speech on US economic capacity

    Declares that the US is ready to fight.

  • Hungary leaves Warsaw Pact

  • Red Army invades Budapest

  • EEC created

  • Sputnik 1 launched

  • Sputnik 2 launched

    With Laika.

  • Diem arrives in USA for first time

    "Miracle man of Asia".

  • NASA established

  • Khrushchev list of demands on Berlin

  • US rejects Khrushchev's list of demands on Berlin

  • Batista's regime oevrthrown by Castro

  • Camp David

    Symbolical importance.

  • U2 discovered

  • Paris Summit

    Khrushchev walks out of conference after accusing the US of spying.

  • Khrushchev takes shoe off at UN meeting

  • Bay of Pigs

  • First meeting Khrushchev and JFK in Vienna

    To discuss their issues during the Berlin crisis.

  • JFK radio speech to Americans

    Communism is a worldwide threat.

  • Warsaw Pact forces mobilised to Berlin

  • Wire fence put up in Berlin

  • Concrete wall put up in Berlin

    By request of Walter Ulbricht, the president of East Berlin.

  • LBJ partition rejected by Khrushchev

  • Soviet response to LBJ

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    Checkpoint Charlie

    Massive nuclear standoff between both powers.

  • Operation Mongoose

  • Operation Anadyr

    Deploying ballistic missiles, medium-range bombers, and a division of mechanized infantry to Cuba to create an army group that would be able to prevent an invasion of the island by United States forces.

  • Khrushchev stores missiles to Cuba

  • Strategic Hamlets in Vietnam

    The government forced the poorer side of the population to move into hamlets.

  • U2 spy plane discovers missiles in Cuba

  • Khrushchev sends telegram to Kennedy regarding an end to Missile crisis

  • Meeting Kennedy and Soviet ambassador

  • Khrushchev withdraws the missiles stored in Cuba

  • Norman Morrison suicide

    American civilian who committed suicide outside the Pentagon to protest for Vietnam.

  • Voting Rights Act US

  • Moscow Test Ban Treaty

    To prevent any possible future nuclear conflicts.

  • 'Hot Line' created

    Connects the Kremlin with the White House.

  • Assassination Diem

    Diem and Madam Nhu killed.

  • JFK assassinated

  • Battle of Ap Bac

  • Buddhist crisis

  • 24th Amendment US

  • China make first nuclear weapon

  • Civil Rights Act US

  • Khrushchev substituted by Brezhnev

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    LBJ's 'great society'

    Group of domestic programs in the US.
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    Battle of Danang

    Viet Cong troops attack US base in Danang.

  • Malcolm X assassinated

  • Martin Luther King killed

  • Prague Spring

    Period of political liberalization and mass protest in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
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    Tet Offensive

    • Battle of Khe Sanh
    • Battle of Hue
    • Battle of Saigo
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    Battle of Khe Sanh

    Surprise North Vietnamese troops attack to US military base in Khe Sanh.
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    Battle of Saigon

    Viet Cong attacks on Presidential Palace, National Radio Station, and US embassy.
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    Battle of Hue

    2,500 to 5,000 north vietnamese killed. Bloodiest battle of Tet Offensive.

  • Robert Kennedy killed

    Seen as 'America's last hope'.

  • Death Khrushchev