-
Period: to
The Yalta Conference
-
United Nations formed
-
Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech
-
Introduction of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
-
Period: to
The Berlin Blockade
-
Creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
-
Mao's Communists are victorious in the Chinese Civil War
-
The Korean War begins
-
Warsaw Pact signed
-
Period: to
Hungarian uprising
-
USSR launches Sputnik
-
Construction of Berlin Wall
-
Period: to
The Cuban Missile Crisis
-
JFK assassinated
-
The Suez Crisis
-
America enters the Vietnam War
-
Period: to
Detente in Europe
-
US Astronauts land on the moon
-
The creation of the democratic West Germany
-
SALT2 pact signed
-
Russia invades Afghanistan
-
Gorbachev becomes president of the USSR, introduces policy of “glasnost”
-
Fall of the Berlin Wall
-
Period: to
Collapse of the USSR