Cold War Flashcards
(22 cards)
When was Khrushchev’s Berlin ultimatum issued?
1958
When was the Paris Summit?
1960
When was the Berlin Wall built?
1961
When was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
1962
When did Kennedy visit West Berlin?
1963
When was a hotline set up for Washington and Moscow?
1963
When was the Limited Test Ban Treaty declared?
1963
When was the six day war?
1967
When was the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty declared?
1968
When was the Prague Spring?
1968
When did Jan Palach set fire to himself in Prague?
1969
When was Nikita Khrushchev leader of the USSR?
1953-1964
When was President Dwight D. Eisenhower in power?
1953-1961
When was President John F Kennedy in power?
1961-1963
When was the Bay of Pigs invasion?
1961
When were the Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam conferences?
Tehran in 1943, Yalta and Potsdam in 1945.
What was agreed in the Tehran conference?
Little was agreed in Tehran, except that a second front should be opened against Nazi Germany.
What was agreed in the Yalta conference?
That the Soviets would allow free and fair elections in countries liberated from Germany.
What was agreed in the Potsdam conference?
Germany was to be completely disarmed and demilitarized, and would be split into 4 zones.
What was the Long Telegram?
A telegram written in 1946 by George Kennan stating that the Soviets could not peacefully coexist with the capitalist world, and that the best solution was to contain communism.
What was Novikov’s telegram?
A telegram written in 1964 by Nikolai Novikov stating that the USA had emerged from WW2 as a world power bent on world domination.
