Cold War Timeline.notebook
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1953 ­ NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV BECOMES NEW SOVIET LEADER
1991 ­ USSR FALLS November 4, 1956 ­ HUNGARIAN UPRISING and returns to RUSSIA and SUPPRESSED
November 1, 1952
July 17, 1975 ­ independent republics FIRST H­BOMB TEST
APOLLO MISSION under BORIS YELTSIN
October 1, 1949
August 17, 1961 ­ COMMUNISTS BERLIN WALL TAKE POWER IN ERECTED
CHINA and NATO December 8, 1987 ­ CREATED
REAGAN AND GORBACHEV AGREE TO February 4, 1945
March 8, 1965 ­ US ARMS CUT YALTA MARINES SENT INTO CONFERENCE
VIETNAM
May 1945
POTSDAM CONFERENCE
June 24, 1948
SOVIETS IMPOSE BERLIN BLOCKADE
March 12, 1947
TRUMAN DOCTRINE PROCLAIMED
June 1947
MARSHALL June 25, 1950
PLAN
KOREAN WAR BEGINS
1970s
October 22, 1962
KENNEDY DECLARES DETENTE
NAVAL BLOCKADE OF CUBA/ CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
October 4, 1957 ­ FIRST SPUTNIK LAUNCH
February 21, 1972 ­ NIXON VISITS CHINA ­ SALT limits nuclear weapons for both superpowers
1985 ­ MIKHAIL GORBACHEV BECOMES SOVIET LEADER and introduces GLASNOST AND PERESTROIKA
November 9, 1989 ­ FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL
December 24, 1979 ­ SOVIET INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN
1954 ­ US SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST RACIAL SEGREGATION
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