Cold War dates
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- Truman Doctrine speech before Congress
- 03/1947
- Korean armistice signed
- 07/1953
- Germany surrenders
- 05/1945
- Japan formally surrenders
- 09/1945
- Soviet troops leave Iran
- 04/1946
- Ike wins presidency in November
- 1952
- West Germany created
- 09/1949
- Khrushuchev in full power
- 1954
- Potsman Conference; Trinity Test
- 07/1945
- Yalta
- 02/1945
- Hungarian uprising and Suez Crisis
- 1956
- Peoples Republic of China established -- Chaing on Formosa
- 10/1949
- Soviets test first A-bomb
- 08/1949
- Marshall becomes Secretary of State
- 01/1947
- NATO organized
- 04/1949
- MacArthur fired by Truman
- 04/1951
- Berlin Blockade ends
- 05/1949
- Marshall Plan speech at Harvard
- 06/1947
- Geneva Summit between Ike and Khrushchev
- 1955
- Khrushchev's De-stalinization speech at 20th Party Congress
- 1956
- Churchill's Iron Curtain speech
- 03/1946
- Currency reform in 3 Western German zones; Berlin Blockade and airlift begin
- 06/1948
- NSC 68
- 04/1950
- Truman elected President in his own right
- 11/1948
- Atomic Bombs on Japan
- 08/1945
- Korean War starts
- 06/1950
- Soviets launch Sputnik
- 1957
- UN Charter signed in San Francisco
- 06/1945
- Chinese communists launch major offensive in Korea -- US and UN driven south
- 11/1950
- US tests first H bomb
- 1952
- Korean war stabilizes and continues along 38th parallel
- 1952
- French defeated at Dien Bien Phu
- 1954
- US increases aid to Diem -- strives to catch up with Russians in space
- 1958
- Geneva Accords on Indochina signed
- 1954
- Inchon landing
- 09/1950
- Stalin dies -- power struggle begins
- 03/1953
- FDR dies - Truman becomes president
- 04/1945
- Sino Soviet Friendship Treaty
- 02/1950
- Castro takes over Cuba
- 1959