USSR or Soviet Union or Russia Communist USA Capitalist

Cold War Teheran Conference 1945-End of WW2, nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Yalta, Potsdam Soviets set up satellite states in Eastern Europe 1946-Churchill’s iron curtain speech 1947-Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan (US policy of Containment) 1948-Berlin Airlift b began 1949-Stalin called off Berlin Blockade, division of Germany into East Germany and West Germany, formation of NATO, China went communist, USSR tested atomic bomb Korean War 1953-death of Stalin 1955-West Germany joined NATO 1955-Warsaw Pact formed Khrushchev’s secret speech, De- Stalinisation 1956-Protests in East Germany and Poland 1956-Hungarian Crisis Khrushchev’s Berlin Ultimatum 1959-Khrushchev’s visit to Camp David Vienna Summit 1961-Berlin Wall built

Cold War Bay of Pigs 1962-Cuban Missile Crisis 1963-Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963-Kennedy visited Berlin 1964-Khrushchev forced out of power 1967-Six Day War in Middle East drew Arabs closer to Soviet Union as USA supplied so much military hardware to Israel 1968-Prague Spring/Czech crisis main time of the Vietnam War 1972-SALT 1 led to the ABM Treaty 1973-USA/USSR cooperation over ending the Yom Kippur War in the Middle East Nixon’s visit to Moscow 1975-Helsinki Agreements SALT 11 (not ratified) 1979-Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1980-Carter Doctrine 1980-Mocow Olympics boycott 1981-Reagan increased US defence budget (‘Evil Empire’) SDI (‘Star Wars’) announced LA Olympics boycott Gorbachev came to power-Glasnost, Perestroika, non-interference Reykjavik Summit INF Treaty Moscow Summit 1989-Fall of the Berlin Wall and communism in Eastern Europe Germany reunified Collapse of Soviet Union and end of the Warsaw Pact

USA/USSR leaders USA Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Dwight Eisenhower John Kennedy Lyndon Johnson Richard Nixon Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan George Bush Snr USSR Joseph Stalin died 1953 Georgy Malenkov Nikita Khrushchev Leonid Brezhnev Yuri Andropov Konstantin Chernenko Mikhail Gorbachev