All Of The Dates Flashcards
(342 cards)
1
Q
The Atlantic Charter
A
August 1941
2
Q
The Tehran Conference
A
November-December 1943
3
Q
Moscow Conference/Percentages Agreement
A
October 1944
4
Q
The Dumbarton Oaks Proposals (UN)
A
1944
5
Q
US politicians withdrew aid to Nicaragua
A
1992
6
Q
Peace accords signed in El Salvador
A
1992
7
Q
Boris Yeltsin (President of Russia) seized Gorbachev’s office
A
27 December 1991
8
Q
USSR Supreme Soviet voted to dissolve itself and end the Soviet Union
A
26 December 1991
9
Q
Arms control negotiations resumed between USA and USSR in hope of finalising START
A
September 1989
10
Q
Bizonia formed
A
January 1947
11
Q
The Marshall Plan is announced
A
5 June 1947
12
Q
Cominform
A
September 1947
13
Q
Deutschmark introduced
A
23 June 1948
14
Q
The Marshall Plan is enacted
A
April 1948
15
Q
Comecon
A
January 1949
16
Q
NATO formed
A
4 April 1949
17
Q
The Berlin Blockade
A
24 June 1948 - 11 May 1949
18
Q
The Inchon Landings
A
September 1950
19
Q
The San Francisco Treaty
A
September 1951
20
Q
Creation of ANZUS
A
1951
21
Q
Stalin dies
A
5 March 1953
22
Q
Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship
A
14 February 1950
23
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Creation of SEATO
A
September 1954
24
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The Warsaw Pact
A
14 May 1955
25
Austrian State Treaty
May 1955
26
The Great Leap Forward
1958-1962
27
National Liberation Front (NLF) formed in South Vietnam
1960
28
The Battle of Ap Bac
January 1963
29
Khrushchev deposed as leader
October 1964
30
Brezhnev as Soviet leader
14 October 1964 - 10 November 1982
31
Nixon visits China
February 1972
32
SALT I was signed in the Kremlin by Nixon and Brezhnev
26 May 1972
33
Kissinger became Secretary of State
1973
34
The Helsinki Accords
30 July - 1 August 1975
35
Jimmy Carter becomes President
January 1977
36
The Vienna Summit - signing of SALT II
June 1979
37
USSR invades Afghanistan
December 1979
38
The Carter Doctrine
23 January 1980
39
KAL 007 drifted unintentionally into Soviet airspace and was shot down by Soviet fighter jets
1 September 1983
40
In a speech Reagan called USSR the “Evil Empire”
1983
41
Chernenko as Soviet leader
13 February 1984 - 10 March 1985
42
The Washington Summit
December 1987
43
Law in State Enterprises in USSR, which decentralised authority and devolved decision making down to businesses/enterprises themselves
1988
44
The Malta Summit
December 1989
45
Yavlinsky Report
1990
46
Reunification of Germany
October 1990
47
The Moscow Summit, which led to conclusion of START 1 and Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
July 1991
48
Gorbachev gave final TV address as President of the USSR
25 December 1991
49
Truman’s Iron Fist
January 1946
50
National Security Act
(Established NSC and CIA)
June 1947
51
USSR - lithium bomb
1953
52
Soviets launched Sputnik
(1st man made satellite)
5 October 1957
53
Vanguard’s failure - Flopnik
December 1957
54
The Paris Summit
May 1960
55
Average age of Politburo was 58
1961
56
The Malinovsky Incident
1964
57
Operation Rolling Thunder
February 1965
58
China detonates the atomic bomb
1964
59
Nixon cancels trade embargo on China
1971
60
Both FRG and GDR were members of UN
By end of September 1973
61
Olympics in Moscow, which the USA boycotted
1980
62
The Reykjavik Summit
October 1986
63
South Africa agreed to negotiations (Angola)
May 1988
64
Fall of Berlin Wall
November 1989
65
Dropping of atomic bomb on Hiroshima
6 August 1945
66
Stuggart Speech
September 1946
67
The Baruch Plan
June 1946 (August)
68
The Yalta Conference
4 February - 11 February 1945
69
Creation of RIO
1947
70
200,000 Chinese troops attacked UN forces
(The Korean War)
25 November 1950
71
The Monroe Doctrine
1823
72
Paris Peace Conference
July - October 1946
73
The MacArthur Constitution enacted in Japan
May 1947
74
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) established
September 1948
75
Camp David
September 1959
76
The Strategic Hamlets Program
1962
77
Protest in Washington DC, which showed that the anti-war movement had become mainstream
October 1967
78
US ping pong team visits China
1971
79
Somalia invaded Ogaden
July 1977
80
Andropov as Soviet leader
12 November 1982 - 9 February 1984
81
The Long Telegram (Kennan Telegram)
22 February 1946
82
Gorbachev announced Glasnost
1988
83
Representatives from 11 Soviet Republics announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union
Declared they would establish a Commonwealth of Independent States
December 1991
84
Reagan directed military, scientific and industrial communities in the USA to undertake long-term research programme, which would eliminate nuclear weapons (Strategic Defence Initiative)
March 1983
85
Chernobyl disaster
1986
86
Nixon resigns, Gerald Ford becomes President
August 1974
87
Johnson announces decision to not run for another term
March 1968
88
Bays of Pigs Fiasco
17 April - 19 April 1961
89
Occupation of Japan formally ends
28 April 1952
90
Rigged elections in Hungary
1947
91
The Truman Doctrine
12 March 1947
92
The Potsdam Conference
17 July - 1 August 1945
93
Operation Barbarossa
June 1941
94
Castro overthrew a US backed Batista regime
January 1959
95
‘Black Saturday’ - 12th day of Cuban Missile Crisis
27 October 1962
96
Ulbricht (Communist party chief in East Germany) resigned
Replaced by Erich Honecker
May 1971
97
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
May 1972
98
US forces were evacuated from Cambodia
April 1975
99
Carter formally asked the US Senate to postpone indefinitely any further consideration of the SALT II agreement
3 January 1980
100
Gorbachev announced the USSR’s intention to reduce support for MPLA regime
December 1986
101
George H.W. Bush takes office as president
January 1989
102
Gorbachev resigns as General Secretary of the Party and encouraged the Central Committee and all party bodies to dissolve
24 August 1991
103
Roosevelt died
12 April 1945
104
Republic of Korea (South Korea) established
May 1948
105
The Panmunjom Armistice Agreement
27 July 1953
106
2nd Berlin Crisis
1958-59
107
Secret removal of US weapons from Turkey
April 1963
108
Nixon commissioned study into Vietnam - National Study Memorandum 1
January 1969
109
West Germany signed a treaty with Poland - recognised post-war Oder-Neisse border
7 December 1970
110
Pope John Paul II visited Poland
June 1979
111
CPSU monopoly of power (Article 6) removed
1990
112
Mao Zedong dies, Den Xiaoping takes over
1976
113
Cultural Revolution (China)
1966
114
Alliance for Progress
August 1961
115
The Vienna Summit
June 1961
116
Soviet withdrawal from Finland (agreement)
1955
117
The Korean War
June 1950 - July 1953
118
Kicking out London Poles in Poland
October 1947
119
First Indochina war
1946 - 1954
120
The Iron Curtain Speech by Churchill
5 March 1946
121
Dropping of atomic bomb on Nagasaki
9 August 1945
122
US indicate to USSR and China they are willing to negotiate a ceasefire in Korea
June 1951
123
The USSR detonates own hydrogen bomb
1953
124
The Hungarian Uprising
October - November 1956
125
NASA and NDEA set up
1958
126
Operation Quick Kick
March 1962
127
The Buddhist Crisis
May 1963
128
Congress approved $700 million for military operations in Vietnam
May 1965
129
Civil war in China
1927-32
1933-37
1945-49
130
Rhee’s declaration of martial law in South Korea
1953
131
The Hallstein Doctrine
1955
132
U2 spy planes spotted missile bases on Cuba
14 October 1962
133
Working Group on Vietnam established
January 1965
134
The Moscow Summit (SALT)
May 1972
135
Andropov issued a statement seeking to evaluate Soviet perception of Reagan administration
28 September 1983
136
Estonia declared independence from USSR
March 1990
137
The (attempted) coup on Gorbachev
1991
138
Last Soviet troops were withdrawn from Afghanistan
May 1989
139
Thatcher visited Reagan
February 1981
140
3000 advisors sent to Vietnam
1961
141
Kennedy proposes a peace conference in Geneva for situation in Laos
1962
142
Castro seizes $1 billion of assets in Cuba
October 1960
143
Creation of CENTO
February 1955
144
Nagorno-Karabakh’s declaration of independence
2 September 1991
145
Full scale war (Nagorno-Karabakh conflict)
1992-94
146
Katyn Forest Massacre
1940, but discovered April 1943
147
The McMahon Act is passed by Congress
1946
148
Sino-Soviet alliance strengthened
May 1953
149
Sputnik II carried 1st live passenger (dog: Laika)
3 November 1957
150
Castro introduced a programme of Agrarian reform
May 1959
151
China agreed to provide military supplies to North Vietnam
December 1964
152
Tet Offensive
January-February 1968
153
MPLA internationally recognised as the official government of Angola
1976
154
Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader
1985
155
Ethiopian Army faced series of defeats
1989
156
USA and USSR had to renegotiate the number of weapons to be destroyed
July 1991
157
Warsaw Uprising
1944
158
The San Francisco Conference (UN)
April - June 1945
159
Defeat of Nazi Germany
May 1945
160
Churchill lost the general election and Attlee took over
26 July 1945
161
Japan’s formal surrender aboard the USS Missouri
2 September 1945
162
Moscow Agreement (Korea)
1945
163
The Greek Civil War
March 1946
164
Eastern Germany: merging communists with Socialist party, then purging the leadership of Socialist party
April 1946
165
War Crimes Trials inTokyo
May 1946 - November 1948
166
Breakdown in reparation agreements
May 1946
167
The Clifford Elsey Report
July - September 1946
168
USA warns USSR that any intervention in Turkey will lead to UN action
August 1946
169
Heavily rigged election in Bulgaria
October 1946
170
Rigged elections in Romania
November 1946
171
UK told USA they could not afford to stay in Greece
February 1947
172
The Council of Ministers failed fail to reach an agreement on a central administration during the Moscow Conference
March - April 1947
173
Banning of all other political parties in Bulgaria
April 1947
174
Finnish-Soviet Peace Treaty signed
1947
175
The dissolution of the Peasants Party and abdication of King Michael in Romania
1947
176
Arresting and executing Petkov (leader of Agrarian party) in Bulgaria
1947
177
Division of Korea confirmed by UN
1947
178
Second Red Scare
1947-1957
179
Yugoslavia expelled from Cominform
June 1948
180
Czech crisis (coup d’état)
1948
181
Dissolution of all other political parties in Poland
1948
182
West Germany (FRG) formed
May (August) 1949
183
The White Paper on China
5 August 1949
184
Russians successfully test their own nuclear weapon
August 1949
185
East Germany (GDR) formed
October 1949
186
The Defensive Perimeter Speech
12 January 1950
187
70,000 North Korean troops and tanks crossed the 38th parallel
25 June 1950
188
MacArthur invades North Korea
7 October 1950
189
NSC-68
1950
190
USA recognises French backed Bao Dai as legitimate leader of Vietnam
1950
191
McCarthy’s speech to Women’s Republican Club
1950
192
UN accuses China of being the aggressor in Korean War
February 1951
193
MacArthur fired by Truman
11 April 1951
194
US-Japan Security Treaty
1951
195
General Treaty signed - abolished statute of occupation and recognises full sovereignty for West Germany (FRG)
May 1952
196
The US successfully detonates the 1st hydrogen bomb
November 1952
197
NSC 162/2
“The US will consider nuclear weapons to be available for use as other munitions”
October 1953
198
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted for spying for Soviets and executed
1953
199
Operation Ajax in Iran
1953
200
The Geneva Accords
June - July 1954
201
USA - lithium bomb
1954
202
Guatemala CIA Operation
1954
203
1st Quemoy/Matsu Crisis
1954
204
End of Allied occupation of West Germany
5 May 1955
205
West Germany accepted into NATO
9 May 1955
206
The Geneva Summit
September 1955
207
USA had developed 1st intercontinental bomber
B52 Stratofortress
1955
208
The Secret Speech
20th Party Congress
By Khrushchev
February 1956
209
Polish Uprising
June - October 1956
210
USSR develops its 1st intercontinental bomber
TU20 Bear
1956
211
USSR develops 1st ICBMs
1957
212
Diem’s visit to America (referred to as ‘miracle man’ of Asia)
1957
213
Khrushchev officially became Premier of Soviet Union
27 March 1958
214
The Berlin Ultimatum by Khrushchev
27 November 1958
215
Launch Explorer
USA’s 1st satellite
1958
216
2nd Quemoy/Matsu Crisis
1958
217
Soviet First Deputy Premier Mikoyan visited Cuba
February 1960
218
1st shipment of crude oil from USSR arrived in Cuba
April 1960
219
US develops 1st submarine launched ballistic missile, Polaris
July 1960
220
Sino-Soviet slit becomes public (when the advisors leave)
1960
221
Civil war broke out between the Royal Lao Army and Pathet Lao insurgents
1960
222
USSR launches 1st man into space
Yuri Gagarin
April 1961
223
Barriers were erected to prevent free movement between the Western sectors of Berlin and Soviet sectors
13 August 1961
224
Barbed wire began to be replaced with stone (Berlin Wall)
17 August 1961
225
US Operation Mongoose begins
30 November 1961
226
Kennedy sent General Taylor to Vietnam to assess
November 1961
227
USSR- tsar bomba
1961
228
Kennedy administration decided to send in additional military aid under Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
February 1962
229
Operation Anadyr
August 1962
230
Kennedy informed of missiles on Cuba
16 October 1962
231
USSR ships stop short of US blockade of Cuba
24 October 1962
232
USSR sends telegram offerign a summit
(Cuba)
26 October 1962
233
Khrushchev agreed that missiles should return to the USSR and that missile bases in Cuba should be dismantled
28 October 1962
234
Kennedy authorises 1054 minutemen missiles and promises to win space race to the moon
1962
235
Elderly Buddhist monk burned himself alive in Saigon
June 1963
236
South Vietnamese rebel generals activated a military coup
1 November 1963
237
Diem assassinated
2 November 1963
238
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution drawn up
June 1964
239
Passed Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in Senate
7 August 1964
240
Gulf of Tonkin Incident and Resolution
August 1964
241
3500 marines arrive tasked with protecting Da Nag air force base (Vietnam)
8 March 1965
242
Authorised deployment of ground troops to defend US installations in South Vietnam
March 1965
243
Approved increase of over 18,000 American support forces (Vietnam)
6 April 1965
244
The Battle of Ia Drang Valley
November 1965
245
Speech by Martin Luther King, which emphasised that the Vietnam War was undermining social reform and the Great Society that Johnson was committed to
April 1967
246
The Red Guards crossed the border (border they share with the USSR)
1968
247
Red Guards invaded Zhen Bao/Damanski
2 March 1969
248
Operation Menu
March 1969
249
Appointment of Willy Brandt as Chancellor of West Germany
October 1969
250
Kissinger appointed National Security Advisor
1969
251
Prince Sihanouk was deposed by pro-American General Lon Nol (Cambodia)
March 1970
252
USA committed 20,000 ground troops to Cambodia
April 1970
253
Brandt’s talk with USSR, which led to the signing of the Non-Aggression Pact
August 1970
254
Allende (Marxist) won national elections in Chile
September 1970
255
Operation Linebacker
April 1971
256
US backs Pakistan (against India) in war that creates Bangladesh
December 1971
257
US military sent 119 advisors to Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
1971
258
US does not block the UN’s move to make the People’s Republic of China part of UN Security Council
1971
259
The Interim Agreement on the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms
16 May 1972
260
The Basic Treaty - 2 Germanies formally recognised each other
21 December 1972
261
People’s Republic of China becomes part of UN Security Council
1972
262
Chile’s military seized power
September 1973
263
The Vladivostok Summit
November 1974
264
China sent 120 military advisors to FNLA in Angola
1974
265
Each of the 3 liberation movements in Angola declared themselves the official government from their separate capital cities, thus civil war
MPLA: Luanda
Unita: Huambo
FNLA: Ambriz
Spring 1975
266
Kissinger persuades Ford to send $25 million supplies and $16 million arms to FNLA in Angola
July 1975
267
In Angola, FNLA advanced towards Luanda, yet there were 12,000 Cuban troops (team MPLA) defending the city
October 1975
268
MPLA proclaimed the creation of People’s Republic of Angola (PRA)
November 1975
269
USA’s Clark Amendment called for reduction of involvement in Angola
1976
270
Proposals by Carter regarding SALT II
28 March 1977
271
15,000 Cuban troops in Ethiopia
February 1978
272
The Vietnamese with Soviet military aid invade Cambodia
25 December 1978
273
China and USA reached an agreement on Taiwan
December 1978
274
Pope John Paul II elected and enthroned
1978
275
Formal diplomatic relations begin between China and USA
1 January 1979
276
Deng visited the USA
29 January - 4 February 1979
277
The Islamic Revolution in Iran
January 1979
278
Revolution in Iraq
January 1979
279
The Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua
July 1979
280
A coup by reformist military officers in El Salvador
October 1979
281
Carter convinced the USA’s NATO allies to increase their military
December 1979
282
Ayatollah Khomeini established Republic of Iran (The Islamic Revolution in Iran)
1979
283
Saddam Hussein took power in Iraq (revolution in Iraq)
1979
284
New Jewel Movement (a leftist group) seized power in Grenada
1979
285
About 300,000 workers in Poland went on strike
July and August 1980
286
General Jaruzelski became Communist party leader in Poland
6 September 1981
287
Jaruzelski and the Military Committee of National Redemption imposed martial law in Poland
13 December 1981
288
Average age of Politburo was 71
1981
289
France and Mexico recognise FMLN as legitimate political force in El Salvador
1981
290
Reagan visited Britain
June 1982
291
START commenced
Mid 1982
292
Extreme right-wing National Republican Alliance (Arena) wins parliamentary elections in El Salvador
1982
293
Following a short lived coup led by the Coard Faction, 7000 US troops invaded Grenada
October 1983
294
USA committed to deploying missiles in Europe
November 1983
295
Duarte (Christian Democrat) won presidential election in El Salvador
1984
296
The Geneva Summit
November 1985
297
USA’s Clark Amendment (from 1976) repealed and funding resumed in Angola
1985
298
Secretary General of Comecon, Vyacheslav Sychov contacted the European Commission to propose mutual diplomatic recognition
1985
299
Release of dissident Andrei Sakharov
1986
300
Thatcher allowed USA to launch F-111 bombers against Libya
1986
301
USSR encouraged a major offensive against UNITA
September 1987
302
Signing of Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
December 1987
303
Amnesty Law in El Salvador
1987
304
Mengistu established People’s Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
1987
305
Gorbachev announced decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan
February 1988
306
First cases of mass violence were recorded in Sumgait (Nagorno-Karabakh)
February 1988
307
The Moscow Summit
May - June 1988
308
Negotiations reached in New York (Angola)
December 1988
309
Process of withdrawal of troops in Afghanistan began
1988
310
52,000 Cuban troops in Angola
1988
311
Nationalist demonstrations in Azerbaijan (Nagorno-Karabakh)
1988
312
‘Special government administration’ in Karabakh - direct control from Moscow
12 January 1989
313
Baltic States held a Baltic Assembly in Tallin, Estonia
May 1989
314
Bush visited Poland and Hungary
July 1989
315
Execution of Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife by firing squad live on national television in Romania
25 December 1989
316
Presidency of Cristiani (Arena party) in El Salvador
1989
317
USSR government commission established to recommend a way forward for economy
1989
318
Contras saw reduction in funding from US
Late 1980s
319
The date Sandinistas agreed to hold elections (Nicaragua)
25 February 1990
320
Lithuania declared independence from USSR
February 1990
321
Latvia declared independence from USSR
May 1990
322
Kohl (West German Chancellor) and Gorbachev met - Gorbachev agreed to remove Soviet military presence from East Germany and put no restrictions on German sovereignty
July 1990
323
Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty signed in Paris - limits on Soviet military capability and scale of military hardware
November 1990
324
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia declared independence from USSR
1990
325
Soviets made a last attempt to regain control by sending troops to Lithuania and Latvia
January 1991
326
Opposition forces approached capital of Addis Ababa and Mengistu fled Ethiopia
May 1991
327
Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front assumed power
May 1991
328
Sovetskaua Rossiva
23 July 1991
329
Kennedy assassinated and Johnson becomes president
22 November 1963
330
Johnson agreed to implementation of OPLAN 34 A (strategy based on covert action) in Vietnam
January 1964
331
Johnson wins presidential election, thus has a mandate
November 1964
332
100 Vietcong dressed as peasants attacked a US base near Saigon
November 1964
333
Vietcong attack on army barracks and US helicopter base in Pleiku killing 8 officers and injuring 100
February 1965
334
The New York Times “it’s time to call a spade a bloody shovel. This country is in an undeclared and unexplained war in Vietnam”
February 1965
335
Secret message sent to Ho Chi Minh
US wanted a ‘just peace’ but threatened ‘measures of great consequence and force’ if there was no progress by November
July 1969
336
Ho Chi Minh dies and is replaced by Le Duan
September 1969
337
Widespread student protests erupted in USA (due to Vietnam [Cambodia])
May 1970
338
Congress voted to remove the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
June 1970
339
The Moscow-Washington Hotline
June 1963
340
The Moscow Test Ban Treaty
August 1963
341
The Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty
July 1968
342
Paris Peace Agreement announced
January 1973
