Yalta Conference

Bombing of Hiroshima

Iron Curtain Speech

Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

Baruch Plan failed

Communist Coup Czechoslovakia

Berlin Blockade

Nato Established

USSR tests Atomic Bomb

CCP take over China

Korean War Start

USA tests Hydrogen Bomb

Stalin's Death

Korean Ceasefire

Geneva Agreement on Indochina

1st Taiwan Straits Crisis

Khrushchev's first visit to China

USA first Intercontinental Bombers

Warsaw Pact Established

Geneva Summit

Khrushchev's Secret Speech

USSR first TU20 bear (intercontinental bomber)

Soviets invade Hungary

Sputnik

Eisenhower warned of Missile Gap

Khrushchev criticises Great Leap Forward

2nd Berlin Crisis

2nd Taiwan Straits Crisis

Sino-Soviet agreement on atomic cooperation cancelled

Cuban Revolution

U2 Spy Plane incident

JFK becomes President

Yuri Gugarin first man in space

Bay of Pigs invasion

Vienna Summit

Berlin Wall erected

Cuban Missile Crisis

Hot line telephone link/Nuclear test ban treaty

China 1st Nuclear Bomb test

Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Sino-Soviet border clashes - Ussuri River

Nixon Visits China

Salt I agreed

Apollo-Soyuz Link up

Helsinki Accords

Salt II signed but not ratified

Soviets invade Afghanistan

Martial Law in Poland

SDI announced

Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader

Washington Summit (INF Treaty)

Collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe

Reunification of Germany

End of USSR