Cold War Timeline

1945

• 6 August- Hiroshima
• 9th August- Nagasaki
• 15th August- Surrender Japan. McArthur supreme commander US occupation force

1946

• February-Kennan's long telegram

1947

• February-Truman doctrine
• March-Iron Curtain speech

1948

• September-Kim Il Sung set up People's Democratic Republic of North Korea

1949

• October-Mao Zedong…