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Randy Montgomery Centre High Campus
Berlin Blockade
Formation of NATO
Revolution in China
Korean War begins
COMECON
Death of Stalin
Korean War ends
Communization
SEATO
of Eastern
Europe
Formation of
Iron Curtain
Warsaw Pact
U.S. CONTAINMENT
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
COLD WAR
COLD WAR TIMELINE/CHART
U2 Incident
Berlin Wall
Bay of Pigs
Cuba Missile Crisis & American Blockade
Escalation of Vietnam War
U.S. Embargo Against Cuba
Nuclear Test
Ban Treaty
Rebellion in Czechoslovakia (Prague Spring)
Cuban Revolution
SPUTNIK
Rebellion in Hungary
Sino-Soviet
border clashes
U.S. recognizes
U.S. changes its
China
China Policy
Nuclear Non-proliferation
Treaty
USA leaves
Vietnam
Rebellion in East Germany
and Poland
THE THAW
continues
Soviet Invasion
of Afghanistan
Korean Airliner shot down
U.S. Policy
S.D.I.
Red Shield & Soviet Space Station
Gorbachev
Perestroika
Glasnost
Disarmament Agreements
A.B.M., SALT I, Helsinki,
SALT II (not ratified), START
BRINKMANSHIP
DETENTE
U.S invasion
of Granada
Elian Gonzalez
COLD WAR ENDS?
INF Treaty
U.S. Helms-Burton
Law
Berlin Wall comes down
1945
1950
U.S.A.: TRUMAN
1945-1952
CONTAINMENT
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
1955
EISENHOWER
1953 - 1960
DONIMO EFFECT
U.S.S.R: STALIN
1927 - 1952
COLD WAR
CHINA:
1960
1965
KENNEDY
JOHNSON
1961 - 1963
1963 - 1968
BRINKMANSHIP
Vietnam War
Space race
KHRUSHCHEV
1954 - 1964
THE THAW
DE-STALINIZATION
PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE
Relaxation of controls
1970
NIXON
1969 - 1974
DÉTENTE &
CHINA POLICY
ends Vietnam War
1975
FORD
1975 - 1976
BREZHNEV
1964 - 1982
DETENTE
Brezhnev Doctrine
strict controls on satellites
CARETAKERS
GORBACHEV
Andropov/Chernenko 1984? – 1991
1982-84-?
PERESTROIKA
Afghanistan
GLASNOST
MAO
1949-1976
YELTSIN
Elected to Russia
1991-2000
XIAOPING
1979-1997
Cultural Revolution
YUGOSLAVIA: TITO
One Child Policy
Market Reforms
MILOSEVIC (elected)
1980-2000
1943-1980
Expelled from COMINFORM
CUBA:
Cuba Shoots
ABM
2 planes down
Treaty Canceled
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
CARTER
REAGAN
BUSH Sr.
CLINTON
BUSH Jr.
1976-1980
1980 - 1988
1988 –1992
1992-2000
2000(Iran Hostages)
COLD WAR
(war with Iraq) HELMS-BURTON LAW Cancels
Strategic Defence Initiative
ABM Treaty
(Star Wars Program)
(terrorism)
Intervention in Central America (Contras)
(Afghanistan)
CASTRO
1959-2008
Tiananmen Square Uprising
Tight Political Control
PUTIN
2000-
ZEMIN
1998Receives Hong Kong
From Great Britain
SERBIA KOSTUNICA
2001-