Hist SBQ Intl

Overall Timeline Date Event Ongoing Phenomena WWII Aug 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact 1940 Katyn Forest Massacre Jun-Nov 1941 Operation Barbarossa 1941 Atlantic Charter 1944 Warsaw Uprising 1944 Morgenthau Plan 6 June 1944 Delayed opening of the Second Front Sept 1944 Communist coup in Bulgaria Sovietisation of Eastern Europe [BPHRC] 4-11 Feb 1945 Yalta Conference Feb 1945 Declaration of Liberated Europe Mar 1945 Kidnapping of the Polish Provisional Government Apr 1945 Death of Roosevelt 12 May 1945 End of US lend-lease aid to the USSR July 1945 Churchill replaced by Attlee 17 July-2 Aug 1945 Potsdam Conference July 1945 US development of the atomic bomb 6, 9 Aug 1945 US deployment of the atomic bomb Start of Bipolarity Jan-Mar 1946 Delayed Soviet withdrawal from Iran 22 Feb 1946 George Kennan's Long Telegram 5 Mar 1946 Churchill's Iron Curtain speech 14 Mar 1946 Stalin’s Pravda response 30 Mar 1946 Start of Greek Civil War 2 June 1946 Communist gains in French and Italian elections

Date Event Ongoing Phenomena 7 Aug 1946 Soviet escalation of Turkish Straits Crisis 6 Sept 1946 Byrnes' Speech of Hope 24 Sept 1946 Clifford-Elsey Report Feb 1947 Communist coup in Poland 12 Mar 1947 Truman Doctrine 29 May 1947 Formation of Bizonia in Western Germany 5 June 1947 Marshall Plan 2 July 1947 Molotov Plan 8 July 1947 Publication of the Long Telegram 22 Sept 1947 Zhdanov's Two Camps speech 5 Oct 1947 Creation of COMINFORM Oct 1947 Communist coup in Hungary Dec 1947 Communist coup in Romania Feb 1948 Communist coup in Czechoslovakia 20 June 1948 Operation Bird Dog First Berlin Crisis 24 June 1948 Start of Berlin Blockade 26 June 1948 Start of Berlin Airlift 1 Aug 1948 Formation of Trizonia 25 Jan 1949 Formation of Soviet COMECON 4 Apr 1949 Formation of NATO 12 May 1949 End of Berlin Blockade 23 May 1949 Formation of West Germany 29 Aug 1949 Successful atomic bomb test by the USSR 1 Oct 1949 Formation of the People’s Republic of China 7 Oct 1949 Formation of East Germany 14 Feb 1950 Sino-Soviet Friendship Treaty

Date Event Ongoing Phenomena 7 Apr 1950 NSC-68 25 June 1950 Start of Korean War Korean War 5 Mar 1953 Death of Stalin 27 July 1953 End of Korean War 23 Oct 1954 Decision to allow West Germany to enter NATO 6 May 1955 Accession of West Germany into NATO 14 May 1955 Warsaw Pact Peaceful Coexistence 15 May 1955 Allied withdrawal from Austrian occupation 1955 Removal of Soviet bases from Finland 17 Apr 1956 Dismantling of COMINFORM 23 Oct 1956 UN creation of International Atomic Energy Agency Heightened Tensions 23 Oct-4 Nov 1956 Soviet suppression of Hungarian Revolution Oct 1957 Sputnik Crisis 1 May 1960 U2 Incident 17-20 Apr 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion 4 June 1961 Vienna Summit 13 Aug 1961 Construction of the Berlin Wall Second Berlin Crisis 17 Oct 1961 Formalisation of the Sino-Soviet split 22-28 Oct 1961 Checkpoint Charlie standoff 16-29 Oct 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Cuban Missile Crisis Detente June 1963 Creation of hotline 5 Aug 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (PNTBT) 2 Aug 1964 Start of Vietnam War Vietnam War 14 Oct 1964 Removal of Khrushchev

Date Event Ongoing Phenomena 20 Jan 1968 Start of Tet Offensive 1 July 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) 21 Aug 1968 Soviet suppression of Prague Spring 12 Nov 1968 Brezhnev Doctrine 3 Nov 1969 Nixon Doctrine 22-30 May 1972 Nixon’s visit to Moscow 26 May 1972 Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty (SALT I) 26 May 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) 27 Jan 1973 Paris Peace Accords 22 Nov 1973 Mutual Balanced Force Reduction Proposal (MBFR) 30 July- 1 Aug 1975 Helsinki Accords 18 June 1979 Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty (SALT II) The Second Cold War 11 Feb 1979 Iranian Revoluton 17 July 1979 Sandinista Coup in Nicaragua 4 Nov 1979 Start of Iran Hostage Crisis 24 Dec 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Soviets in Afghanistan 4 Jan 1980 Carter’s grain embargo 23 Jan 1980 Carter Doctrine May 1981 Operation RYAN 18 Nov 1981 Zero Option Proposal 8 June 1982 Reagan’s address to the British Parliament 12 June 1982 Nuclear Freeze rally at Central Park 8 Mar 1983 Reagan’s Evil Empire speech 23 Mar 1983 Strategic Defence Initiative 1 Sept 1983 Shooting of KAL 007 11 Nov 1983 US-NATO Exercise Able Archer 83

Date Event Ongoing Phenomena 6 Feb 1985 Reagan Doctrine End of Bipolarity 11 Mar 1985 Gorbachev comes to power 19-20 Nov 1985 Geneva Summit Sept 1986 Daniloff-Zakharov Affair 11-12 Oct 1986 Reykjavik Summit Mar 1987 Iran-Contra Scandal 28 May 1987 Mathias Rust Incident 12 June 1987 Reagan’s “Tear down this wall!” speech 19 Oct 1987 Black Monday 11 Nov 1987 Yeltsin Affair 8-10 Dec 1987 Washington Summit 8 Dec 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) 29 May-3 June 1988 Moscow Summit 15 May 1988 Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan 8 Dec 1988 Unilateral Soviet troop reductions May 1989 Hungary dismantles its fence with Austria Democratisation of E. Europe [PRGHCBA] 4-18 June 1989 Polish elections 23 Aug 1989 Human chain from Tallinn to Vilnius Collapse of USSR 25 Oct 1989 Sinatra Doctrine 9 Nov 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall 16-25 Dec 1989 Romanian Revolution 2-3 Dec 1989 Malta Summit 18 Mar 1990 East German elections 25 Mar 1990 Hungarian elections Mar-May 1990 Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia unilaterally declare independence 20 May 1990 Romanian elections

Date Event Ongoing Phenomena 30 May-3 June 1990 Washington Summit 1 June 1990 Chemical Weapons Accord 8-9 June 1990 Czechoslovakian elections 10-17 June 1990 Bulgarian elections 3 Oct 1990 Reunification of Germany 19-21 Nov 1990 Paris Summit 19 Nov 1990 Conventional Forces of Europe Treaty (CFE) 31 Mar 1991 Albanian elections 31 Mar 1991 Dissolution of Warsaw Pact 12 June 1991 Yeltsin is elected as President of Russia 12 June 1991 Russia declares itself ‘autonomous’ 31 July 1991 Bush visits Yeltsin and Nazabaev in Moscow July 1991 Moscow Summit 31 July 1991 Strategic Arms Control Talks Treaty (START) 19 Aug 1991 August Coup 6 Sept 1991 Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia recognised as independent 1 Dec 1991 Ukraine votes for independence 8 Dec 1991 Minsk Declaration / Belovezha Accords 21-22 Dec 1991 Alma-Ata Protocols 25 Dec 1991 Gorbachev resigns 27 Dec 1991 Yeltsin replaces Gorbachev at the Kremlin 31 Dec 1991 USSR ceases to exist

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1959-62 Events Significance of Cuba to USA ● Historical ○ Yankee imperialism: American economic and political domination of the Western Hemisphere ○ 1823 Monroe Doctrine ● Geopolitics ○ Cuba in US backyard, located in close proximity to Florida (90 miles away) ○ Affected US security, came under US area of influence ○ Domino theory, fear of falling regional dominoes ● Economic ○ Protect and promote US