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This document contains a timeline of significant events during the Cold War, presented as a list of key events and dates. It includes important events such as the Yalta Conference, Potsdam Conference, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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[ The Cold War, Chronological order of Significant Events] **Key:** - **Post-War Europe** - **Eastern Europe, Western Europe** - **Europe in the making** - **Europe from Dictatorship to Democracy** - **Cold War and International Relations since 1945** - **China since 1949** - *...

[ The Cold War, Chronological order of Significant Events] **Key:** - **Post-War Europe** - **Eastern Europe, Western Europe** - **Europe in the making** - **Europe from Dictatorship to Democracy** - **Cold War and International Relations since 1945** - **China since 1949** - **Decolonisation and Independence since 1945** - **Yalta Conference (4^th^ -- 11^th^ February 1945)** - **Potsdam Conference (17^th^ July -- 2^nd^ August 1945)** - **Greek Civil War (March 1946 -- October 1949)** - **India gets independence (15^th^ August 1947)** - **Cominform (6^th^ October 1947)** - **Prague Coup (1948)** - **Marshall Plan (1948)** - **Berlin Blockade (1948-1949)** - **Establishment of NATO (4^th^ April 1949)** - **Germany divided, establishment of FDR and DDR (23^rd^ May and 7^th^ October 1949)** - **Chinese Communist win civil war (1^st^ October 1949)** - **Schuman Plan (9^th^ May 1950)** - **Korean War (1950-1953)** - **Agrarian Reform Law (28^th^ June 1950)** - **Establishment of ECSC (April 18^th^ 1951)** - **Stalin dies (5^th^ March 1953)** - **Berlin uprising (16^th^ June 1953)** - **First 5-Year Plan in the PRC (1953-1957)** - **Establishment of Warsaw Pact (14^th^ May 1955)** - **Hungarian Revolution (23^rd^ October -- 4^th^ November 1956)** - **Suez Crisis (October 1956)** - **Treaty of Rome (25^th^ March 1957)** - **Cuban Revolution (1^st^ January 1959)** - **Independence of the Congo (30^th^ June 1960)** - **Great Leap Forward (1958-1962)** - **U-2 Spy Plane Incident (May 1960)** - **Berlin Wall (13^th^ August 1961)** - **Cuban Missile Crisis (July -- 28^th^ October 1962)** - **Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1969)** - **Paris May (May 1968)** - **Prague Spring (20^th^ August 1968)** - **Vietnam War (1946 -- 1975 (US gets involved April 1969))** - **Oli Crisis (1973)** - **Death of Franco (20^th^ November 1975)** - **Détente (1967 -- 1979)** - **Death of Mao (9^th^ September 1976)** - **Soviet Afghan War (1979 -- 1989)** - **Tiananmen square protests (April 1989)** - **Fall of Berlin Wall (9^th^ November 1989)** - **Dissolution of the USSR (26^th^ November 1991)** - **Yugoslav Civil War (31^st^ March 1991)** - **Establishment of the EU (February 7^th^ 1992)** - **Lisbon Treaty (December 13^th^ 2007)** - **Arab Spring (17^th^ December 2010)**

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