Cold War Crises Flashcards
(37 cards)
Khruschev’s Berlin ultimatum
1958
Paris Summit
1960
Construction of the Berlin Wall
1961
Bay of Pigs invasion
1961
The Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
President Kennedy’s visit to Berlin
1963
Hotline set up between Washington and Moscow
1963
The Limited Test ban treaty
1963
The nuclear non-proliferation Treaty
1968
The Prague Spring and Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
1968
Jan Palach sets himself on fire in Prague
1969
Nikita Khrushchev
Leader of UUR from 1953 to 1964
Dwight Eisenhower
President of USA from 1953 to 1961
John F Kennedy
President of USA from 1961 - 1963
Lyndon B Jonhson
President of USA from 1963 to 1968
Richard Nixon
President of USA from 1969 to 1974
Fidel Castro
Leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2011
Alexander Dubcek
Chairman of Slovak communist party
Leonid Brezhnev
Leader of USSR from 1964 to 1982
Containment
US policy of opposing expansion of Communism into Non - Communist countries
Sphere of Influence
Area of the world where one state in dominant
Warsaw Pact
A military organisation between the Soviet Union and satellite states
Brinkmanship
The tactic of seeming to approach the verge of war in order to persuade one’s opposition to retreat
Berlin Ultimatum
Khruschev’s demand for Western Allies to leave Berlin