Paper 1 Theme 1 — Understanding the Cold War

H2History(Paper1)Theme1:UnderstandingtheColdWar OverallTimeline Date Event OngoingPhenomenaWWIIAug1939 Nazi-SovietPact1940 KatynForestMassacreJun-Nov1941 OperationBarbarossa1941 AtlanticCharter1944 WarsawUprising1944 MorgenthauPlan6June1944 DelayedopeningoftheSecondFrontSept1944 CommunistcoupinBulgaria SovietisationofEasternEurope[BPHRC]4-11Feb1945 YaltaConferenceFeb1945 DeclarationofLiberatedEuropeMar1945 KidnappingofthePolishProvisionalGovernmentApr1945 DeathofRoosevelt 12May1945 EndofUSlend-leaseaidtotheUSSRJuly1945 ChurchillreplacedbyAttlee 17July-2Aug1945 PotsdamConferenceJuly1945 USdevelopmentoftheatomicbomb6,9Aug1945 USdeploymentoftheatomicbombStartofBipolarityJan-Mar1946 DelayedSovietwithdrawalfromIran 22Feb1946 GeorgeKennan'sLongTelegram 5Mar1946 Churchill'sIronCurtainspeech 14Mar1946 Stalin’sPravdaresponse

Date Event OngoingPhenomena 30Mar1946 StartofGreekCivilWar 2June1946 CommunistgainsinFrenchandItalianelections 7Aug1946 SovietescalationofTurkishStraitsCrisis 6Sept1946 Byrnes' SpeechofHope 24Sept1946 Clifford-ElseyReport Feb1947 CommunistcoupinPoland 12Mar1947 TrumanDoctrine 29May1947 FormationofBizoniainWesternGermany 5June1947 MarshallPlan 2July1947 MolotovPlan 8July1947 PublicationoftheLongTelegram 22Sept1947 Zhdanov'sTwoCampsspeech 5Oct1947 CreationofCOMINFORM Oct1947 CommunistcoupinHungary Dec1947 CommunistcoupinRomania Feb1948 CommunistcoupinCzechoslovakia 20June1948 OperationBirdDog FirstBerlinCrisis 24June1948 StartofBerlinBlockade 26June1948 StartofBerlinAirlift 1Aug1948 FormationofTrizonia 25Jan1949 FormationofSovietCOMECON 4Apr1949 FormationofNATO 12May1949 EndofBerlinBlockade 23May1949 FormationofWestGermany 29Aug1949 SuccessfulatomicbombtestbytheUSSR 1Oct1949 FormationofthePeople’sRepublicofChina

Date Event OngoingPhenomena7Oct1949 FormationofEastGermany 14Feb1950 Sino-SovietFriendshipTreaty 7Apr1950 NSC-68 25June1950 StartofKoreanWar KoreanWar 5Mar1953 DeathofStalin27July1953 EndofKoreanWar 23Oct1954 DecisiontoallowWestGermanytoenterNATO 6May1955 AccessionofWestGermanyintoNATO 14May1955 WarsawPact PeacefulCoexistence15May1955 AlliedwithdrawalfromAustrianoccupation1955 RemovalofSovietbasesfromFinland17Apr1956 DismantlingofCOMINFORM23Oct1956 UNcreationofInternationalAtomicEnergyAgencyHeightenedTensions23Oct-4Nov1956 SovietsuppressionofHungarianRevolutionOct1957 SputnikCrisis1May1960 U2Incident17-20Apr1961 BayofPigsInvasion4June1961 ViennaSummit13Aug1961 ConstructionoftheBerlinWall SecondBerlinCrisis17Oct1961 FormalisationoftheSino-Sovietsplit22-28Oct1961 CheckpointCharliestandoff16-29Oct1962 CubanMissileCrisis CubanMissileCrisisDetenteJune1963 Creationofhotline5Aug1963 PartialNuclearTestBanTreaty(PNTBT)

Date Event OngoingPhenomena2Aug1964 StartofVietnamWar VietnamWar14Oct1964 RemovalofKhrushchev20Jan1968 StartofTetOffensive1July1968 Non-ProliferationTreaty(NPT)21Aug1968 SovietsuppressionofPragueSpring12Nov1968 BrezhnevDoctrine3Nov1969 NixonDoctrine22-30May1972 Nixon’svisittoMoscow26May1972 StrategicArmsLimitationsTreat