Cold War Timeline/Outline- for each item listed, define it, include the date it occurred, and explain how it affected the Cold War.

Please type and print this assignment. You will turn it into me in class.

Example-The Yalta Conference-p.592 (1945) President Roosevelt met with Stalin and Churchill and agreed to the creation of the United Nations, Soviet entry into the war in the Pacific, and free elections in Poland and Eastern Europe. Cold War connection- Stalin would violate this agreement and not allow free elections in Soviet occupied territories.

  1. The Potsdam Conference-p.608
  2. Establishing the Iron Curtain-p.609
  3. The Truman Doctrine-p.610
  4. The Marshall Plan-p.610
  5. The Berlin Blockade/Airlift-p.611
  6. Formation of NATO-p.612
  7. The Chinese Civil War-p.613
  8. The Korean War-p.615
  9. HUAC/The Hollywood 10-p.620
  10. Alger Hiss-p.621
  11. Ethel and Julius Rosenberg-p.621
  12. McCartyism-p.623
  13. The Hydrogen Bomb-p.625
  14. Massive Retaliation/Brinkmanship-p.626
  15. The Warsaw Pact-p.626
  16. The Suez Canal Crisis-p.627
  17. The Eisenhower Doctrine-p.628
  18. Sputnik-p.628
  19. Shooting down the U-2 spy plane-p.629
  20. Flexible Response-p.672
  21. The Bay of Pigs invasion-p.673
  22. The Berlin Wall-p.676
  23. The Cuban Missile Crisis-p.673
  24. The Hot Line-p.676
  25. The Limited Test Ban Treaty-p.676
  26. The Race to the Moon-p.680
  27. The Domino Theory-p.725
  28. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution-p.728
  29. The Policy of Détente-p.791
  30. Nixon’s trip to China-p.792
  31. The SALT I Treaty-p.792
  32. SALT II/Invasion of Afghanistan-p.805
  33. Glasnost/Perestrokia-p.836
  34. The Wall comes down-p.837
  35. Feb. 1992 meeting between Bush and Yeltsin-p.837