The Cold War

This time line includes all the neccessary details and facts for the GCSE History- Edexcel A: Making of the modern world. I have incorporate details from Section 4: How did the cold war develop, Section 5: Crises- Berlin, Cuba and Czechoslovakia and Section 6: Why did the cold war end?

The information used here comes from GCSE BBC bitesize History, CGP Edexcel A: Making of the modern world, GCSE Revision buddies history app and some other sources

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Created by: Ranti Adeniyi
Created on: 14-05-13 12:24

Date/period

Event(s)

1943- Tehran Conference

1945- FebruaryYalta ConferenceCHURCHILL, ROOSEVELT, STALIN

1945

1945- May

1945- July

1945- 17 July to 2 AugustPotsdam- ATTLEE, TRUMAN, STALIN

6/7- 9 August 1945Atomic bomb fell on Japan

1945-1948

1946- MarchChurchill's speech

1947- JanuaryBizonia

1947The marshall plan

1947- Truman Doctrine

1947Britain and Greece

1948- FebruaryCzechoslovakia becomes Communist

1948- MarchTrizone

1948- June to May 1949

1949- July/August

1949 SeptemberComecon

1949- West Germany

1949- SeptemberNATO was formed

1949

1949China's Communist

1949-1961

1951Korean War

1952-1953Rakosi was in power

1952USA develop H-bomb

1953- MarchStalin died

1953

1953- SeptemberKhrushchev comes into power

1955- Warsaw pact

1955Geneva Summit

1955

1955Krushchev

1956

1956- October

1956- November 2nd

1956Castro's first attempt

1957Sputnik is launched by the USSR

1958Khrushchev's request

1959Geneva and Camp David summits

1959- October

1959Castro's successful second attempt

1960

1960-1973Walter Ulbricht

1960- 1st MayU2 incident

1960- May 14thParis Summit

1961- April 17-19The Bay of pigs invasion

1961- JuneThe Vienna Summit

1961- August 13thBerlin Wall

1961America's missiles

1961Space race

1962Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

1962The creation of Excomm

1963

1963- June 26th Kennedy's speech

1963USA sell grain to USSR

1964Brezhnev is the new leader of the Soviet Party

1967- June 5th-10thSix day war

1968Dubeck

1968Prague Springa

1968Dubcek's Action Programme for Czechoslovakia

1968- 21st AugustSoviet Union invades Czechoslovakia-

1969First man on moon

1972SALT 1

1974- August 9th

1975Helsinki Accords of 1975

1978- 27/28 AprilThe SAUR revolution

1979worldwide

1979- June Carter signs SALT 2

1979- DecemberThe USSR invaded Afghanistan

1980The Carter Doctrine

1980Reagan was elected

1980

The effects of the Cold war on the USSR

1980Poland rebels

1981

1981START

1983USA invades Grenada

1984Olympics

1985Soviet dependence on the West

1985

Glasnost

Perestroika

1985Gorbachev and Reagan Geneva Summit

1987INF treaty

1988

1989Velvet revolution

1989Gorbachev and the Satellite states

1989The effect of Gorbachev's non-interference of the satellite states

1989- 9th NovemberThe Berlin wall comes down

1989collapse of the Eastern bloc

1989Sinatra Doctrine

1989- December 3rd

1989

1990

1991

Comments

Miss E

Report Sat 22nd February, 2014 @ 10:46

Excellently detailed timeline covering this very complex topic from 1943-1991, a great starting point or check of your own revision but remember you might not need all of this, check the dates of your course of study.

kierann hills

Report Mon 25th January, 2016 @ 13:28

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dayjaden

Report Fri 29th January, 2016 @ 10:07

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Report Fri 29th January, 2016 @ 10:09

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Report Fri 29th January, 2016 @ 10:12

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Report Wed 11th May, 2016 @ 13:07

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anyachuykov

Report Mon 19th December, 2016 @ 20:56

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Magnus Evershed

Report Mon 27th February, 2017 @ 20:09

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moy.odud

Report Sat 11th March, 2017 @ 15:12

Thank you. I was able to make my revision cards from this.

ciye.z

Report Thu 18th May, 2017 @ 16:14

very useful but it has a lot of information that is not needed maybe make one for only the key dates???

sharminxo1406

Report Mon 29th May, 2017 @ 14:16

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Report Sat 30th December, 2017 @ 15:54

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Report Tue 27th February, 2018 @ 14:22

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Abubakar Javed

Report Mon 29th October, 2018 @ 09:34

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Report Sat 3rd November, 2018 @ 16:19

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capri-sun

Report Thu 29th November, 2018 @ 12:50

that is so much to revise

capri-sun

Report Thu 29th November, 2018 @ 12:55

this was useful for revising but it is way too much to actually revise

vannah22

Report Sun 28th April, 2019 @ 09:01

very useful, fantastic in terms of detail, not the best resource to actually revise from but great for picking out information and having a chronological copy of the events. Thank you! :)

03doe

Report Sat 4th May, 2019 @ 14:52

thank you so much for this