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The Cold War dominated international relations in the second half of the 20th century in an all-embracing ideological and military conflict between communism and democracy. This survey shows the Cold War as the consequence of the breakdown of the existing international system during the two world wars and a new great power alignment which emerged to fill the vacuum created in both Europe and Asia as existing states and imperial powers lost their former predominance. The text draws on recent scholarship on the Cold War, based not only upon materials from US, British, Canadian, Australian and European sources, but also upon those from Soviet, Eastern European and Asian sources that only became available in the 1990s. The author aims to shed new light on familiar events such as the Berlin crisis, the Sino-Soviet split, detente, the Sino-American rapprochement of the 1970s and 80s, and the ultimate collapse of communism and the Soviet empire in Europe. The book also compares the Cold Wars domestic impact on the various countries involved, and assesses the degree to which, the Cold Wars influence on the international scene remains pervasive.

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Pocket Histories
THE COLD WAR

PRISCILLA ROBERTS

The Cold War Pocket Histories - image 1

For my parents

The two bravest people I know

First published in 2000 by Sutton Publishing

The History Press

The Mill, Brimscombe Port

Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 2QG

www.thehistorypress.co.uk

This ebook edition first published in 2013

All rights reserved

Priscilla Roberts, 2000, 2013

The right of Priscilla Roberts, to be identified as the Author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

This ebook is copyright material and must not be copied, reproduced, transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applicable copyright law. Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the authors and publishers rights, and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly.

EPUB ISBN 978 0 7524 9478 4

Original typesetting by The History Press

Cover picture: Military Parade on Red Square, Moscow, 1 May 1968 (N. Sitnikov/TASS, courtesy Jonathan Falconer)

Contents
List of Dates

November 1917

Successful Bolshevik revolution in Tsarist Russia

July 1918

Allied intervention in Russia, in which United States participates

November 1918

First World War ends in armistice

April 1920

United States withdraws last troops from Russia

April 1933

Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes US president

November 1933

United States recognizes Soviet Union

August 1939

NaziSoviet Non-Aggression Pact

September 1939

Germany and Soviet Union invade Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany

May 1940

Katyn massacre

June 1941

Germany invades Soviet Union

August 1941

Atlantic Charter

December 1941

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, and Germany and Japan declare war on United States

November 1943

Teheran conference

June 1944

D-Day: AngloAmerican invasion of Europe

AugustOctober 1944

Warsaw uprising

February 1945

Yalta conference

April 1945

Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt; successor as US president Harry S. Truman

May 1945

Surrender of Germany

June 1945

San Francisco conference approves United Nations Charter

JulyAugust 1945

Potsdam conference

August 1945

Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Japan surrenders; Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnamese independence

February 1946

George F. Kennan sends Long Telegram

March 1946

Churchills Iron Curtain speech

United States criticizes Soviet behaviour towards Iran and Turkey; Soviets withdraw forces from Iran

March 1947

Truman Doctrine speech

Treaty of Dunkirk between Britain and France

June 1947

Announcement of Marshall Plan

July 1947

Kennan article, Sources of Soviet Conduct

September 1947

Rio Treaty to defend Western Hemisphere

October 1947

Cominform established

February 1948

Communist coup in Czechoslovakia

March 1948

Brussels security pact of five West European powers

April 1948

Organization of American States established

May 1948

Creation of Israel; immediately recognized by Soviet Union and United States

June 1948

Berlin blockade begins

April 1949

North Atlantic Treaty signed

May 1949

Berlin blockade ends

August 1949

Soviet Union tests atomic bomb

September 1949

Federal Republic of Germany established

October 1949

Chinese Communist Party, led by Mao Zedong, proclaims Peoples Republic of China on Chinese mainland

January 1950

SinoSoviet Treaty of Alliance and Friendship Senator Joseph R. McCarthy makes Wheeling, Virginia, speech, beginning of McCarthyism

April 1950

NSC 68 recommends massive American rearmament

June 1950

North Korea invades South Korea; United States successfully urges United Nations intervention

November 1950

Chinese intervention in Korean War

April 1951

Formation of European Coal and Steel Community

September 1951

Signature of JapaneseAmerican peace treaty and security treaty and ANZUS Pact

January 1953

Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes US president

March 1953

Death of Stalin

June 1953

Panmunjom armistice agreement effectively ends Korean war; United States concludes security treaty with South Korea

Workers uprising in East Berlin crushed with Soviet assistance

August 1953

CIA-backed coup overthrows Mohammed Mossadeqs government in Iran and restores Shah Reza Mohammed Pahlavi II to power

September 1953

Nikita Khrushchev becomes general secretary of Soviet Communist Party

December 1953

Eisenhowers Atoms for Peace proposal

March 1954

Successful United States testing of hydrogen bomb

May 1954

Vietminh defeat French army at Dienbienphu; French decide to leave Indochina

June 1954

Successful CIA-backed coup against Guatemalan government

July 1954

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