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1946-"Sinews of Peace" Iron Curtain Speech by Winston Churchill - "an "iron curtain"has descended on Europe"

1947-Marshall Plan is announced setting a precedent for helping countries combatpoverty, disease and malnutritiony

1945-1951 Deafit of Germany and Japan

1945-Yalta Conference meeting of FDR, Churchill, Stalin - the 'Big Three'Soviet Union has control of Eastern Europe. The Cold War Begins

1948-Brussels Pact organized to protect Europe from communism

1950-Truman approved H-bomb development

1952-1957

1951-Truman fires MacArthur

1949-NATO ratifiedRussia tested its first atomic bomb

1956-USSR sent tanks into Poznan, Poland, to suppress demonstrations by workers

1952-A-bombs developed by Britain.

Timeline Of The Cold War ll

1954-Vietnam split at 17th parallel

1955-Marsaw Pact formed

1957-Sputnik launched into orbit

1953-Nuclear Arms Race atomic test series of 11 explosions at Nevada Test Site

1990-Lithuania becomes independentMay 29 : Boris Yeltsin elected as President of Russia October 3: Germany reunited

1985-1991

End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends

1986-President Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missilesfrom Europe