Timeline

Contents

• Introduction

• Background History
  • East vs West: The Ultimate Love-Hate Relationship
  • How did it all start?
  • How was the Cold War fought?

• First Tensions
  • A Divided Europe
  • Yalta
  • Potsdam
  • The Truman Doctrine
  • The Marshall Plan and the Reconstruction of Europe

• Conflict Under Stalin
  • The Berlin Airlift
  • Korean War

• The mid-20th Century
  • Hungarian Revolution
  • Prague Spring
  • The Space Race
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Guerilla Wars
  • Vietnam
  • Afghanistan

• The End of the Cold War
  • Changes in the USSR - Gorbachev, glasnost and perestroika
  • "A Forward Strategy to Freedom" - Reagan, SDI and Star Wars
  • The break-up of the Soviet bloc
  • The 1991 coup and the rise of Yeltsin

• Nuclear Arms Race