1. World war two 1945 (Feb) yalta conference 1945 (jul) Potsdam conference 1945 (aug) atomic bomb used in japan 1946 (mar) Churchill’s “iron curtain” speech 1947 (mar) Truman doctrine announced 1947 (sept) Cominform set up 1948 marshall plan begins 1949 comecon set up Berlin blockade/airlift 1949 NATO SET UP 1955 warsaw pact set up

2. 1959 cuban revolution 1960 US stop buying cuban sugar 1961 US broke off diplomatic relations with cuba 1961 (apr) bay of pigs disaster 1962 cuban missile crisis 1963 nuclear test ban treaty signed 1963 jfk assassinated 1963 Khrushchev dismissed

3. 1954 Vietnam freed from French rule, divided into two countries usa sending equipment and “military advisors” to South Vietnam 1963 Diem believed to be too corrupt for the USA to support, he was deposed 1964 “Tonkin incident” , 000 us troops sent to vietnam 1965 Operation rolling thunder starts 1965 army fight north Vietnamese in la drang valley 1968 Siege of khe sanh 1968 tet offensive (Vietcong attack) 1968 my lai massacre 1975 south Vietnam surrenders