The Cold War (1)

Space Race, Berlin Blockade and Korean War, Vietnam WAr

March 1948

West unifies
East follows

5th April 1948

Soviet and GB plane collidesw

April 1948

Mini Blockade

24th April 1948

Full Blockade

26th June 1948

400 tonnes/3mins/day

April 1949

NATO

15th April 1949

Easter Parade

12th May 1949

End of Blockade

23ird May 1949

FDR

October 1949

GDR

1955

Warsaw Pact

1949 (2)

Kim asks Stalin to help him invade South Korea

1950

Stalin agrees to send equipment but no troops

June 1950

North Korea invades South Korea

September 1950

USA lands in Inchon drives them back to the 38th parallel

October 1950

China takes Seoul

April 1951

General MacArthur dismissed after calling for nuclear arms

UN's response to the Korean War

Votes to withdraw North Korean soldiers
UN sends troops to support Rhee's government

June/July 1953

Ceasefire
War reaches stalemate

4th October 1957

USSR sends 1st manmade satellite into orbit round Earth

3ird November 1957

USSR sends 1st animal into space: Laika the dog

18th December 1958

USA sends 1st communications satellite

12th April 1961

USSR sends the 1st man into space: Yuri Gagarin

25th May 1961

Kennedy announces that before the end of the decade they will have put a man on the moon

5th May 1961

USA sends 1st human-controlled spaceship into space
Alan Shepard

16th June 1963

USSR sends 1st woman into space: Valentina Tereshkova

20th July 1964

USA puts a man on the moon
Neil Armstrong

23ird April 1971

USSR 1st human-crewed spaceship

15th July 1975

Apollo-Soyuz

1st October 1949

China becomes communist

1954

France withdraws from Vietnam
After Battle of Bien Phu

July 1954

Vietnam splits in two

December 1954

Vietcong aim to overthrow Diem
Ho Chi Minh trail established to get weapons and equipment to the rebels in the North

1960

Kennedy sends 16,000 experts

2nd November 1963

Diem assassinated