Cold War Dates Flashcards
(24 cards)
When was the Tehran conference
November 1943
When was the yalta conference
February 1945
When was the Potsdam conference
July 1945
When was the Long telegram released
22 February 1946
When was the Novikov telegram released
27 September 1946
When did Churchill give his Iron curtain speech
5th of March 1946
When was the truman doctrine
1947
When was the marshall plan
1948
When was cominform founded
1947
When was comecon founded
1949
Start and end of the berlin blockade
24th of June 1948-12th of May 1949
Dates of bomb production
-1945-US make atom bomb
-1949-USSR make atom bomb
-1952-US make hydrogen bomb
-1957-US develop ICBM.
When was the Hungarian uprising
23rd october 1956-4th of November 1956
When was the Berlin ultimatum
November 27th 1958
When was the Berlin wall put up and taken down
Put up-13th of August 1961
Taken down-9th of November 1989
USSR and US conference dates
-Geneva-May 1959
-Camp David-September 1959
-Paris-May 1960
-Vienna-June 1961
When did the Cuban revolution take place
January 1959 overthrew batista
When was the bay of pigs
April 17-19 1961
When was the Cuban missile crisis
October 16th to the 28th-1962
When was the Prague Spring
-April 1968-Dubeck announced reforms “communism with a human face”
-August 1968-Warsaw pact troops invaded
What time frame was the period of detente
1969-1979
Dates of events which cooled tensions during detente
Salt 1-1972
Helsinki accords-1975
Salt 2-1979
Dates of events which soured tensions after detente
-Soviet invasion of Afghanistan-1979
-Boycott of Moscow olympics-1980
-Strategic defence initiative-1983
-Boycott of LA games-1984
When did Gorbachev get overthrown and when did the USSR dissolve
1991-Soviet union dissolved on the 26th of December 1991
