HIST 3822
3 credits/Spring 2004
T/Th 11:15-12:30
Anderson 330

Professor Barbara Welke
752 Social Sciences Bldg.
Office Hours:
T 1-3 pm (or by appt.)
tel: (612) 624-7017
welke004@tc.umn.edu

 
Cold War Timeline: 1944-1957

1944

• International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank

1945

• Conference of Big Three at Yalta
• FDR dies; Truman becomes President
• United Nations Charter Signed
• U. S. Drops Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Aug. 6, 9)
• WWII Ends (Aug. 14)

1946

• Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
• Republicans Win Control of U. S. Congress

1947

• Truman Doctrine; Cong. Approp. $400M in Aid for Greece and Turkey
• National Security Act (Dept. of Defense, National Security Council (NSC), CIA)

1948

• State of Israel Founded
• Berlin Blockade Begins
• Truman Announces Peacetime Draft
• Truman Wins Election
• Marshall Plan

1949

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) founded
• Communists led by Mao Zedong Take Power in China
• Berlin Blockade Ends
• Soviet Union Explodes Atomic Bomb

1950

• Soviet Union & PRC Sign Alliances
• Adoption of NSC-68
• Korean War Begins

1951

• Truman Dismisses General Douglas MacArthur
• Armistice Talks Begin in Korea

1952

• U. S. Explodes 1st Hydrogen Bomb
• Eisenhower Elected President (Nixon, V.P.)

1953

• Armistice Ends Fighting in Korea
• Stalin Dies; Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet Premier

1954

• Warsaw Pact Created
• French Defeat at Dien Bien Phu

1957

• Soviet Union Launches Sputnik (first space orbiting satellite)

 

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