Cold War - Dates Flashcards
(20 cards)
The Potsdam Conference
July – August 1945
Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin
The dropping of the atomic bomb
August 1945
Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin
Marshall Plan
1948
Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin
The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
1948–1949
Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin
The creation of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR)
1949
Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin
The end of the Korean War
1953
Dwight Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev
The Hungarian Uprising
1956
Dwight Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev
The start of the building of the Berlin Wall
12th August 1961
John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev
The Cuban Missile Crisis
October 1962
John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev
The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
August 1968
Lyndon B. Johnson, Leonid Brezhnev
The signing of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) I
1972
Richard Nixon, Leonid Brezhnev
The end of the Vietnam War
1973–1975
Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford, Leonid Brezhnev
The signing of SALT II
1979
Jimmy Carter, Leonid Brezhnev
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
December 1979
Jimmy Carter, Leonid Brezhnev
The Strategic Defense Initiative
1983
Ronald Reagan, Leonid Brezhnev
Glasnost and Perestroika
1985
Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev
The collapse of the Eastern Bloc
1989-1990
Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev
The fall of the Berlin Wall
9th November 1989
Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev
The reunification of Germany
October 1990
George H.W. Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev
The collapse of the USSR
25th December 1991
George H.W. Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev/ Boris Yeltsin
