Edexcel Timeline of the Cold War 1943-1991

• ·       1941 - The Grand Alliance was created.

  ·       1943 - Tehran Conference

  ·       1945 - Yalta Conference

  ·       - Potsdam Conference

  ·       1946 - Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech

  ·       - Long telegram sent

  ·       - Novikov's telegram sent

  ·       1947 - Truman Doctrine announced

  ·       - Marshall Plan announced

  ·       - Cominform created

  ·       1948 - Paris Conference

  ·       1948-49 - Berlin Blockade

  ·       1949 - Comecon created

  ·       - West Germany and East Germany created

  ·       - Formation of NATO

  ·       1955 - Warsaw Pact established

  ·       1956 - Krushchev's "Secret Speech"

  ·       - Soviet invasion of Hungary

·       1957 – Russian Scientist launch Sputnik 1

·       1959 – Geneva Summit

·       1960 – Paris Conference

·       1961 – Vienna Conference

·       - East German troops erect a barbed wire fence around West Berlin

·       - Bay of Pigs invasion

·       1962 – Premier Krushchev sends nuclear missiles to Cuba

·       1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis

·       1963 – President Kennedy visits Berlin

·        - ‘Hotline’ between Washington and Moscow created

·        - Limited test ban treaty

·       1968 – ‘Prague Spring’

·        - Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia