Cold War- dates Flashcards
(38 cards)
1
Q
Yalta
A
Feb 1945
1
Q
Potsdam
A
August 1945
2
Q
Atomic bomb- Hiroshima
A
August 1945
3
Q
Atomic bomb- Nagasaki
A
August 1945
4
Q
Poland exiled non-communist leader
A
1947
5
Q
Czechoslovakia banned non-communist parties
A
1948
6
Q
Truman Doctrine
A
March 1947
7
Q
Cominform
A
October 1947
8
Q
Long telegram
A
1946
9
Q
Iron Curtain speech
A
1946
10
Q
Marshall Plan
A
1948
11
Q
NATO formed
A
1949
12
Q
Mao’s wins Chinese civil war
A
1949
13
Q
Treaty of Friendship
A
1950
14
Q
NSC-68
A
1950
15
Q
USSR boycott UN
A
1949
16
Q
Korean War
A
1950- 1953
17
Q
French pull out Vietnam
A
1954
18
Q
Troops in Vietnam
A
1965- 1973
19
Q
First satellite in Space
A
1957
20
Q
Treaty of Brussels
A
1948
21
Q
Comecon
A
1949
22
Q
Warsaw Pact
A
1955
23
Q
Berlin Blockade/ Airlift
A
June 1948- May 1949
24
Apollo- Soyuz Missin
1975
25
Hungarian Uprising
1956
26
U2 Crisis
1960
27
Supposed-to-be year of Paris Peace Summit
1960
28
Berlin Wall built
1961
29
Castro's failed uprising
1953
30
Start of Cuban revolution
1956
31
Castro and his revolutionaries defeat Batista
1959
32
Bay of pigs
April 1961
33
U2 plane sees nuclear sites in Cuba
14th October 1962
34
Soviet ships boarded at Cuba quarantine
25th October- 1962
35
Kruschev sent letter and removes missles from Cuba
28th Ocotber- 1962
36
Troops in Vietnam (year to year)
1965- 1975
37