Chronology 1945-1949 Show
1945-1946: Creation of Eastern European People's Republics February 1946: George Kennan's Long Telegram and the Policy of Containment March 1946: Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech Spring 1946: Soviet Troops in Iran March 1947: Truman Doctrine June 1947: U.S. Efforts to Control Atomic Energy June 5, 1947: Marshall's Offer of Economic Assistance 1948-1949: Berlin Airlift April 1949: North Atlantic Treaty Organization September-October 1949: Creation of the two Germanys September 1949: Soviet Atomic Bomb 1950-1959 February 1950: Sino-Soviet Treaty April 1950: NSC-68 1950-1953: Korean War November 1952: U.S. Hydrogen Bomb March 1953: Stalin's Death August 1953: Soviet Hydrogen Bomb August 1954: Atomic Energy Act May 1955: Creation of the Warsaw Pact May 1955: Austrian State Treaty July 1955: Big Four Geneva Summit February 1956: Twentieth Congress of Soviet Communist Party June 1956: Polish Uprising Autumn 1956: Suez Crisis October-November 1956: Hungarian Uprising 1957-1958: Sputnik and the Space Race 1958: Suspension of Nuclear Tests November 1958: Khrushchev's Berlin Demands September 1959: Khrushchev Visits the United States September 1959: Khrushchev-Eisenhower Meeting at Camp David December 1959: Antarctic Treaty 1960-1969 May 1960: The U-2 Incident May 1960: Paris Summit May 1960: United States Unveils "Great Seal Bug" at the United Nations June 1961: Vienna Meeting Summer 1961: Berlin Crisis October 18-29, 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis June 1963: Establishment of the "Hotline" August 1963: Limited Test Ban Treaty October 1964: Fall of Khrushchev March 1965: U.S. Troops to Vietnam January 1967: Treaty on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space June 1967: Johnson and Kosygin Meeting July 1968: Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty August 1968: Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia November 1969: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks September-October 1969: Soviet Submarine Base in Cuba 1970-1979 February 1971: Nuclear Weapons Ban on Seabed September 1971: Quadripartite Agreement on Berlin September 1971: Agreement to Reduce Risk of Nuclear War May 1972: Moscow Summit June 1973: Brezhnev-Nixon Meeting in the United States October 1973: Force Reduction Meeting in Vienna June-July 1974: Moscow Summit November 1974: Vladivostok Meeting December 1974: Jackson-Vanik Amendment July 1975: Apollo-Soyuz Mission July-August 1975: Helsinki CSCE Meetings June 1979: SALT II Agreements June 1979: New Moscow Embassy December 1979: NATO Action Against Soviet SS-20 Deployments December 1979: Soviet Invasion of
Afghanistan 1980-1985 May 1980: Gromyko-Muskie Meeting Geneva July-August 1980: Olympic Boycott September 1980: Talks on Medium Range Missiles April 1981: Lifting of Embargo November 1981: Strategic Arms Reduction Proposal November 1981: Intermediate Range Nuclear Force Negotiations December 1981: Martial Law in Poland February-March 1982: Arms
Reductions Refused by United States October 1982: Grain Embargo Lifted November 1982: Brezhnev's Funeral January 1983: Reagan's Open Letter to Europe March 1983: Announcement of Strategic Defense Initiative March 1983: INF Talks April 1983: Lifting of Grain Negotiations Ban September 1983: Downing of Korean Airlines Flight 007 September 1983: INF Talks October 1983: START Talks November 1983: Breakdown of INF Talks December 1983: Breakdown of START Negotiations February 1984: Death of Soviet Leader March 1984: U.S.S. Kitty
Hawk Incident May 1984: Soviet Olympic Boycott July 1984: Improvements to the Hotline September 1984: Proposal for Future Arms Control Talks January 1985: Geneva Meeting March 1985: Death of Chernenko March 1985: Arms Negotiations Resumed May 1985: New Bilateral Trade
Agreements November 1985: Geneva Summit December 1985: Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction Proposal 1986-1989 January 1986: Televised
Greetings March 1986: Nuclear Test Moratorium Proposed April 1986: Chernobyl Disaster April 1986: Commercial Flights Resumed May 1986: Nuclear Risk Reduction October 1986: Reykjavik Summit October 1986: START Proposal 1987: Nuclear and Space Talks April 1987: Discovery of Electronic Listening Devices at U.S. Embassy May 1987: Agreement on Nuclear Risk Reduction May 1987: Draft START Treaty July 1987: Soviet Draft Treaty December
1987: Washington Summit The two leaders signed the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles. They instructed their negotiators at the Geneva Nuclear and Space Talks to intensify efforts to complete a Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms to implement the principle of a 50 percent reduction in these arms, which had been agreed upon at the Reykjavik meeting. The leaders also instructed their negotiators to work out a new and separate treaty on defense and space issues that would commit both sides to observe the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, as signed in 1972. December 1987: Gorbachev, Man of Year May-June 1988: Moscow Summit Secretary Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Shevardnadze also concluded separate agreements, two of them related to arms control: the agreement on Advanced Notification of Strategic Ballistic Missile Launches and the Joint Verification Experiment agreement on nuclear testing. The seven other agreements covered a range of issues, such as expansion of U.S.-Soviet cultural and educational exchanges, U.S.-Soviet cooperation on peaceful uses of atomic power and on space exploration, maritime search and rescue, fisheries, transportation technology, and radio navigation. June 1988: Communist Party of the Soviet Union's XIXth Party Conference December 1988: New York Meeting March 1989: Vienna Meeting March 15, 1989: Gorbachev Elected President May 1989: Secretary Baker's Visit to Moscow May 1989: President Bush's Speech on the Soviet Union June 1989: U.S.-Soviet Military Agreement September 1989: Baker and Shevardnadze Meeting June-November 1989: Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe December 1989: U.S. and Soviet Leaders Met at Malta Which term describes the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War?The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc.
What was the relationship between the US and the Soviet Union?During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers. However, the relationship between the two nations was a tense one. Americans had long been wary of Soviet communism and concerned about Russian leader Joseph Stalin's tyrannical rule of his own country.
Which term best describes the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union during?The Cold War was a period of between the United States and the Soviet Union. Which best describes why Stalin believed that having satellite states would help prevent future wars?
What was the name for the strained relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union during the latter half of the 1900's?The Cold War
Following the surrender of Nazi Germany at the end of World War II, the uncomfortable wartime alliance between the Soviet Union and the United States and Great Britain began to crumble.
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