1. Cold War Revision Timeline
Yalta Conference (February 1945)
Roosevelt dies, replaced by Harry S. Truman (12th April 1945)
Germany loses WW2 (May 1945)
Election in Britain, Churchill replaced by Clement Attlee (July 1945)
Potsdam Conference (July 1945)
Atomic Bomb used in Japan by USA (August 1945)
Soviet expansion in Eastern Europe (Poland, Czechoslovakia etc ‘sphere of influence’)
Churchill refers to divide in Europe as ‘Iron Curtain’ (March 1946)
USA helps British troops fight Communists in Greece (February 1947)
Truman Doctrine (March 1947)
Cominform set up (September 1947)
Marshall Aid introduced (March 1948) new currency in West Germany/Berlin
Berlin Blockade begins (June 1948) US airlift supplies into West Berlin
NATO set up (April 1949)
Federal Republic of Germany/West Germany established (May 1949)
Berlin Blockade lifted (May 1949)
German Democratic Republic /East Germany established (October 1949)
Korean War (result of USA’s policy of Containment of Communism)
Stalin dies, Khrushchev becomes President of USSR
Warsaw Pact signed
Berlin Wall built to divide Communist East Berlin from Capitalist West Berlin

2. Cuban Missile Crisis Revision Timeline
Atomic Bomb used in Japan by USA (August 1945)
USSR builds their first Atomic weapons
Stalin dies, Khrushchev becomes President of USSR
USSR develops Hydrogen Bombs
USSR begins testing Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) (15th May 1957)
USA develops their own ICBMs and Polaris missiles, medium range missile are stationed in Turkey and Europe
Fidel Castro overthrows Batista’s government and becomes leader of Cuba
Castro allies Cuba with USSR in trade agreement for $100 million in aid
Kennedy elected President (November 1960)
Bay of Pigs incident (April 1961)
USSR supplies Cuba with weapons (May 1962)
US spy planes see nuclear missile bases in Cuba (14th October 1962)
President Kennedy informed of missile bases (16th October 1962)
Kennedy announces naval blockade of Cuba and calls on USSR to withdraw missiles (22nd October 1962)
Blockade begins, at 10.32am Soviet ships turn around (24th October 1962)
American U-2 bomber plane is shot down over Cuba (27th October 1962)
Kennedy and Khrushchev communicate via letters (26-28th October 1962)
Missiles were dismantled in Cuba and Kennedy agreed to remove missiles in Turkey in secret
(28th October 1962)
Permanent ‘hot-line’ phone link is set up from White House to Kremlin
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed
Kennedy assassinated (November 1963)
Khrushchev forced to re-sign

3. Vietnam War Revision Timeline
Vietnam divided into North (Communist) and South (Capitalist) Vietnam
N. Vietnamese army create Ho Chi Minh Trail to carry supplies to S. Vietnam
N. Vietnam creates Viet Cong (National Liberation Front of South Vietnam)
American troops arrive to help S. Vietnamese army
President Johnson elected President
N. Vietnamese boats fire at US warships in Gulf of Tonkin – Johnson takes action
Operation Rolling Thunder (7th February 1965) Vietcong use guerrilla warfare against US forces
Americans control towns, Vietcong largely control countryside.
Tet Offensive (January 1968)
My Lai Massacre (March 1968)
Operation Rolling Thunder ends (October 1968)
Mounting Anti-Vietnam protests in USA
President Nixon elected (November 1968)
USA begin policy of ‘Vietnamisation’ (training S.Vietnam army to fight the North)
Withdrawal of most American forces
Ceasefire signed in Paris (January 1973)
Last US troops leave Vietnam (29th March 1973)
Nixon forced to resign over Watergate Scandal
Major N. Vietnam Army offensive against S. Vietnam
S. Vietnam capital, Saigon, falls to Communist forces