using the pages listed behind the event, look up the date the event happened, read about the event, then put the event in the proper stage on the back of this sheet.

DATE Brief Description of event
Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia (768)
SALT agreements (855)
Announcement of the Truman Doctrine (758)
Creation of Marshall Plan (759)
Revolt in Hungary (768)
Suez crisis (819)
Yalta Conference (751)
Korean War (781)
Establishment of the United Nations ((755)
Adjournment of the
Council of Foreign Ministers (753)
Cuban Missile Crisis (842)
USSR drops the A-Bomb (notes)
Bay of Pig invasion (842)
U-2 spy plane shot down (767)
USA first drops the A-Bomb( notes)
Berlin airlift (759)
Sputnik (876)
Gulf of Tonkin incident in Vietnam
Fall of the Berlin wall
Beginning of Vietnam War(796)
(US Involement)
Paris Accords (797)
Building of the Berlin Wall (767)
NATO formed (761)
Warsaw Pact formed (761)
USSR attacks Afghanistan (855)
USSR divided into 12 regions returns to former Russian boundaries
There are other events of the cold war-civil war in Angola, war between Iran and Iraq,

Stage One 1944-1945 (Build Up to War)

Precipatating incident - Yalta Conference
Contributing Factors or Events -Battle of the Bulge in Western Europe and Soviet "invasion" of Germany
Turning Point -End of WW II in Europe Germany divided 4 zones
 

Stage Two 1945-1949 (First Battle and stabilization)

Precipatation Incident - USA Dropping of the Atomic Bomb
Contributing Factors or Events -Berlin Airlift, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan
Turning Point -UN formed, NATO formed
 

Stage Three 1949-1962 (Check and escalation)
Precipatating Incident - USSR drops the bomb
Contributing Factors or Events - Korean War 1950-53, Revolt in Hungary, Sputnik, WARSAW Pact formed, U-2 plane, Building of Berlin Wall, Bay of Pigs invasion,
Turning Point - Cuban Missile Crisis

Stage Four 1962-1993 (De-escalation and check-mate)
Precipatating Event - Cuban Missile Crisis
Contributing Factors or Events - Soviet invasion of Czech, Vietnam War 1965- 1973, USSR attacks Afghanistan,
Event that ends the war 1993 USSR divides into 12 regions and reverts to pre-Catherine the Great Russian borders
Is it really over?Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism, System of Alliances, Weak Treaty of Versailles, Isolationism, Appeasment