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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 |