The Communists take power in station 572 "Pershing II" nuclear Czechoslovakia The Hungarian uprising takes place, war heads in Western Europe if the starting on Oct. 20, but it is negotiations with the Soviets over The Soviet blockade of West the dismantling of SS-20 midrange ultimately crushed by the Russians Berlin begins on June 24. Cut off Troops from the missiles fail. The deployment from the outside world, The Korean War: After North From Oct. 29 to Nov. 6, the Suez The Cuba crisis: After Warsaw Pact, begins in 1983. provisions are delivered to the Korea attacks South Korea, UN crisis takes place. After Egypt the Soviets position an organization The Allies agree in Potsdam to isolated city by the Americans in troops led by the United attempts to nationalize the Suez nuclear war heads in of communist the fundamental conditions of the Berlin Air Bridge action. This States invade the country. On June 17, 1953, a Canal, Israel, France and Great states in Central 1980: Following the Soviet invasion Cuba, the United the occupation of Germany. is the first major Berlin crisis China and the Soviet Union workers' uprising in East Britain occupy the Canal Zone and and Eastern States threatens war. of Afghanistan in 1979, the US American nuclear bombs during the Cold War. On May back North Korea. The cease- Germany is crushed by bomb Egyptian air fields. Soviet Europe, stamp imposes sanctions on the Russians The world is on the destroy Hiroshima and 12, 1949, Stalin lifts the fire leaves the two countries Russian tanks. leader Nikita Khrushchev threatens out the Prague and boycotts the Moscow Olympic verge of nuclear war Nagasaki. blockade. with the pre-war status quo. London and Paris with nuclear war. for days Spring uprising. Games.
1945 1948 1950-1953 1953 1956 1962 1968 1979-1980
1947 1949 1952 1955 1961 1965 1969-1970 1991
The Truman Doctrine: The US On April 4, the NATO Treaty is signed in Soviet leader Joseph Stalin The Federal Republic of The construction of The first US combat Negotiations between the In 1989 The Berlin offers assistance to countries Washington offers to hold negotiations on Germany joins NATO and forms the Berlin Wall begins forces land in South UN and the Soviet Union Wall falls on threatened by communism - the reunification of Germany on the Bundeswehr, the first on August 13. Vietnam. More than begin on the reduction of On May 23, the Federal Republic of November 9 especially Greece and Turkey. the condition that a united Germany army to exist after 2 million people will nuclear weapons. The talks Germany is established. Not long later, on Germany remain neutral. With Hitler's fall. end with several treaties in The Warsaw Pact US Secretary of State George C. perish during the Oct. 7, the communist German Democratic the support of the West 1979, but the arms race is dissolved. Marshall announces a massive Vietnam War -- Republic (GDR) is founded German parliament, the continues unabated. Gorbachev resigns aid program for the mostly civilians. The reconstruction of World War II- Western allied powers reject US withdraws its and the Soviet On August 29, the Soviets detonate their torn Europe that will become the offer. troops in 1973. Two Union disappears first atomic bomb known as the Marshall Plan. years later the 1970: The Ostpolitik, a policy from the map. After winning the country's civil war, the communist north of rapprochement with the Communist Party under Mao Zedong conquers the Eastern bloc championed by establish the People's Republic of China. southern part of the German Chancellor Willy country. Brandt, begins. His policy of "change through conciliation" The Germans and Russians agree to a treaty that renounces the use of force