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GCSE History
International Relations 1945-91
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July 17-Aug 2 – Potsdam Conference (Roosevelt/Churchill replaced by Truman/Attlee) | 1945 |
August 6 -- United States first used atomic bomb in war on Hiroshima | 1945 |
August 8 -- Russia enters war against Japan | 1945 |
August 14 -- Japanese surrender End of World War II | 1945 |
March -- Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" Speech | 1946 |
March -- Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War and Truman Doctrine introduces policy of Containment | 1947 |
June -- Marshall Plan is announced offering $17 billion of aid to Europe | 1947 |
February -- Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia, Marshall Plan approved by Congress | 1948 |
June 24 -- Berlin Blockade begins | 1948 |
July -- NATO ratified | 1949 |
May 12 -- Berlin Blockade ends | 1949 |
September -- Mao Zedong, a Communist, takes control of China | 1949 |
September -- Soviets explode first atomic bomb | 1950 |
February -- Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunts | 1950 |
June -- Korean War begins, first example of ‘proxy war’ | 1950 |
March – Stalin dies | 1953 |
July -- Korean War ends | 1953 |
July -- Vietnam split at 17th parallel into Communist North and US backed South | 1954 |
May -- Warsaw Pact formed as direct opponent of NATO | 1955 |
October - November -- Rebellion put down in Communist Hungary, appeals from leaders to US are ignored as rebellion is brutally crushed by Khrushchev | 1956 |
October. Egypt took control of Suez Canal; U.S. refused to help take it back | 1956 |
October 4 – First man-made satellite, Sputnik, launched into orbit by USSR beginning Space Race | 1957 |
November -- Khrushchev demands withdrawal of troops from Berlin | 1958 |
January -- Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro | 1959 |
September -- Khrushchev visits United States; denied access to Disneyland | 1959 |
May -- Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane U2 was shot down over Soviet territory | 1960 |
November -- John F. Kennedy elected President | 1960 |
April -- Bay of Pigs invasion, CIA backed invasion to remove Castro ends in failure | 1961 |
July -- Kennedy requests 25% spending increase for military | 1961 |
August 13 -- Berlin border closed | 1961 |
August 17 -- Construction of Berlin Wall begins | 1961 |
-- U.S. involvement in Vietnam increased | 1962 |
October -- Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962 |
July -- Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified | 1963 |
November -- President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas | 1963 |
August -- Gulf of Tonkin incident | 1964 |
April -- U.S. Marines sent to Dominican Republic to fight Communism | 1965 |
July -- Announcement of dispatching of 150,000 U.S. troops to Vietnam | 1965 |
August -- Soviet troops crush Czechoslovakian revolt, parallels to Hungary 1956 | 1968 |
July 20 -- Apollo 11 lands on the moon | 1969 |
April -- President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia | 1970 |
July -- SALT I signed, places limits on development of nuclear weapons | 1972 |
January -- Cease fire in Vietnam between North Vietnam and United States | 1973 |
October -- Egypt and Syria attack Israel; Egypt requests Soviet aid | 1973 |
August -- President Nixon resigns | 1974 |
April 17 -- North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam | 1975 |
July -- SALT II signed | 1979 |
November -- Shah of Iran overthrown; Iranian Hostage Crisis | 1979 |
-- President Reagan proposes Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) | 1983 |
-- Mikhail Gorbachev ascends to power in Soviet Union | 1985 |
-- Gorbachev ends economic aid to Soviet satellites (buffer states) | 1986 |
October -- Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe | 1986 |
October -- Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove all medium and short-range nuclear missiles by signing treaty | 1987 |
January -- Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan | 1989 |
June -- China puts down protests for democracy; Poland becomes independent | 1989 |
September -- Hungary becomes independent | 1989 |
November -- Berlin Wall falls | 1989 |
December -- Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania; Soviet empire ends | 1989 |
March -- Lithuania becomes independent | 1990 |
May 29 -- Boris Yeltsin elected to presidency of Russia | 1990 |
October 3 -- Germany reunited | 1990 |
April -- Warsaw Pact ends | 1991 |
August -- End of Soviet Union Cold War Ends | 1991 |
February 4-11-- Yalta Conference Cold War Begins | 1945 |