COLD WAR TIMELINE

1917Bolshevik Revolution; Lenin comes to power

1930's - Great Economic Depression

1941Nazi Germany invades USSRPearl HarborGrand Alliance formed

1943'Big Three' meet at Tehran

1945 Feb - Yalta ConferenceApril - Truman replaces RooseveltMay - End of WW2July - USA's successful explosion of an atom bombJuly/Aug - Potsdam ConferenceAug - Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki; End of war with Japan

1946Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech at Fulton MissouriKennan's Long TelegramGreek Communists launch civil war against Royalists

1947Truman Doctrine launchedMarshall Plan establishedCominform establishedBy the end, every state in EEurope controlled by Com government (except Czech)

1948Communist Coup in CzechoslovakiaBerlin Blockade begins 

1949USA's monopoly on nuclear arms endsNATO establishedBerlin Blockade liftedCommunists take over ChinaComecon established

1950 Cold War & Decolonization in full swingSino-Soviet Alliance signedStart of Korean WarNSC-69 accepted

1953Death of StalinCeasefire agreed in Korea

1955Warsaw Pact

1918Woodrow Wilson issues 14 pointsTreaty of Brest-Litovsk   

1919Comintern established by Bolshevik Russia

1939WW2 startsNazi-Soviet Pact

 1944Naughty Document/Percentages agreement between Churchill and Stalin

1917 - Bolshevik Revolution; Lenin comes to power. The UK and USA both funded opposition.

1918 - Woodrow Wilson issues 14 points. Less secrecy, free navigation of the seas, an end to all economic barriers between countries, reduction of weapons, self-determination and the restoration of much of the pre-war order (particularly for Poland), the establishment of a League of Nations.

1918 - Treaty of Brest-LitovskBetween Russia & Germany; allowed Lenin to withdraw from WW1 and so focus on internal affairs, albiet at the expense of a large amount of economically valuable land.

1919 - Comintern established by Bolshevik Russia.Created to fight "by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie and for the creation of an international Soviet republic as a transition stage to the complete abolition of the State" - effectively a collective for communist states.

1930's - Great Economic DepressionLongest, deepest and most widespread depression of the 20th century.

1939 - WW2 startsBeginning of the second world war.

1939 - Nazi-Soviet PactStalin and Hitler; a promise not to go to war with one another, and a secret pact to split Poland.

1941 - Nazi Germany invades USSRHitler breaks the Nazi-Soviet Pact and invades Russia

1941 - Grand Alliance formedBritain, USA & USSR for an alliance against Germany, Italy and Japan.

1941 - Pearl HarborJapan attacks USA directly, drawing the country into war and shaking America's self-perceived geographical invulnerability. 

1943 - Teheran ConferenceChurchill, Roosevelt and Stalin discussed the opening of a second front (Russia) and the future of Poland (see mindmap).

1944 - Naughty Document/Percentages agreement between Churchill and StalinAgreed that E.Europe could be a Soviet sphere of influence - behind Roosevelt's back.

Timeline

1917-1944