COLD WAR DATES Flashcards
(144 cards)
1
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Bolshevik Revolution 1
A
February 1917
2
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Bolshevik Revolution 2
A
November 1917
3
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Tehran Conference
A
November 1943
4
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Yalta Conference
A
February 1945
5
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Roosevelt dies and Truman becomes President
A
April 1945
6
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Germany surrenders: Victory in Europe
A
May 1945
7
Q
United Nations formed
A
June 1945
8
Q
Potsdam Conference
A
July 1945
9
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Japan surrenders: Victory in the Pacific
A
August 1945
10
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Stalin’s Two Camps speech
A
February 1946
11
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Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech
A
March 1946
12
Q
Baruch Plan proposed
A
June 1946
13
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Truman Doctrine
A
March 1947
14
Q
Marshall Plan proposed
A
June 1947
15
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Kennan’s ‘Mr. X.’ article
A
July 1947
16
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Cominform created
A
October 1947
17
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Czech coup: Marshall Plan implemented
A
February 1948
18
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State of Israel created
A
May 1948
19
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Berlin Blockade
A
June 1948
20
Q
Yugoslavia expelled from Cominform
A
June 1948
21
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Truman re-elected
A
November 1948
22
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COMECON founded
A
January 1949
23
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NATO established
A
April 1949
24
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Berlin Blockade ends
A
May 1949
25
USSR explodes atomic bomb
September 1949
26
Federal Republic of Germany established
September 1949
27
German Democratic Republic established
October 1949
28
Mao's Chinese Communist Party takes power and the People's Republic of China is established
October 1949
29
NSC-68
April 1950
30
North Korea invades South Korea
June 1950
31
USA and Japan sign mutual security pact
September 1951
32
Eisenhower elected
November 1952
33
Stalin dies
March 1953
34
East German uprising
June 1953
35
Armistice in Korea
July 1953
36
Dulles announces 'massive retaliation policy'
January 1954
37
Fall of Dien Bien Phu
May 1954
38
Geneva Conferenc on Vietnam
July 1954
39
SEATO established
September 1954
40
West Germany joins NATO
October 1954
41
Warsaw Pact signed
May 1955
42
Geneva Summit
July 1955
43
Nasser announces arms deal with USSR
September 1955
44
Baghdad Pact
November 1955
45
Khrushchev's 'de-Stalinization' speech/'peaceful co-existence' promoted
February 1956
46
Suez Crisis
July 1956
47
Hungarian Uprising suppressed
October 1956
48
Sputnik launched by USSR
October 1957
49
Revolution in Iraq
July 1958
50
Quemoy and Matsu blockaded
August 1958
51
Castro takes power in Cuba
January 1959
52
Dulles dies
May 1959
53
Khrushchev visits USA
September 1959
54
U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR
May 1960
55
Kennedy elected
November 1960
56
Sino-Soviet split confirmed
November 1960
57
USA breaks off relations with Cuba
January 1961
58
Bay of Pigs
April 1961
59
Berlin Wall built
August 1961
60
Cuban Missile Crisis
October 1962
61
Partial Test-ban Treaty signed in Moscow between the USA, USSR and UK
August 1963
62
Kennedy assassinated and Johnson becomes president
November 1963
63
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution/USA goes to war in Vietnam
August 1964
64
Khrushchev deposed and replaced by Brezhnev
October 1964
65
China detonates A-bomb
October 1964
66
Johnson re-elected
November 1964
67
Fighting between India and Pakistan over Kashmir
August 1965
68
NATO headquarters moved to Brussels after France withdraw
September 1966
69
Six Day War between Israel and Arab states
June 1967
70
Association of South-East Asian States (ASEAN) established
August 1967
71
Brezhnev Doctrine
July 1968
72
Warsaw Pact invades Czechoslovakia
August 1968
73
Nixon elected
November 1968
74
Nuclear non-proliferation Treaty
November 1969
75
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) talks begin
April 1970
76
UN admits China, expelling Taiwan
October 1971
77
Nixon visits China
February 1972
78
Nixon visits USSR
May 1972
79
SALT 1 signed
May 1972
80
Nixon re-elected
November 1972
81
Fourth Arab-Israeli War
October 1973
82
Nixon resigns over Watergate
August 1974
83
Communist victory in Vietnam and Cambodia
April 1975
84
Helsinki Final Act signed
August 1975
85
SEATO disbands
February 1976
86
Mao dies
September 1976
87
Carter elected
November 1976
88
USA plans to deploy cruise missiles
June 1977
89
USSR deploys SS-20s in Europe
December 1977
90
UN special session on disarmament
May 1978
91
USA and China open diplomatic relations
January 1979
92
Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT 2
June 1979
93
US hostage crisis in Tehran
November 1979
94
Soviet forces invade Afghanistan
December 1979
95
Tito dies
May 1980
96
Mass strikes in Poland
August 1980
97
Iraq attacks Iran
September 1980
98
Reagan elected
November 1980
99
US hostages released in Iran
January 1981
100
Argentina seizes Falkland Islands
April 1981
101
Brezhnev dies, replaced by Andropov
November 1981
102
Reagon promotes SDI
March 1983
103
US troops invade Grenada
October 1983
104
Soviets walk out of START talks
December 1983
105
Andropov dies, replaces by Cherenko
February 1984
106
Reagan re-elected
November 1984
107
Cherenko dies, replaced by Gorbachev
March 1985
108
USSR criticise SDI at UN
September 1985
109
Reagan and Gorbachev summit
November 1985
110
Chernobyl disaster
April 1986
111
Summit in Washington, Reagan and Gorbachev
December 1987
112
Gorbachev announces withdrawal from Afghanistan
February 1988
113
Summit in Moscow, Reagan and Gorbachev sign INF treaty
May 1988
114
Bush elected
November 1988
115
Soviet troops withdraw from Hungary
April 1989
116
Tiananmen Square massacre
June 1989
117
Hungary opens border with Austria
September 1989
118
Honecker forced to resign in East Germany
October 1989
119
Berlin Wall comes down
November 1989
120
Czech Communist Party resigns
November 1989
121
East German, Lithuanian and Latvian parliaments abolish special position of Communist Party
December 1989
122
Lithuanian parliament declares independence
December 1989
123
Ceausescu executed in Romania
December 1989
124
Havel new Czech president
December 1989
125
Bulgarian parliament abolishes special position of Communist Party
January 1990
126
Lithuanian parliament declares independence
March 1990
127
Estonian parliament votes for secession from USSR
March 1990
128
Latvian parliament declares independence
May 1990
129
Bush/Gorbachev summit in Washington
June 1990
130
NATO declares formal end of Cold War
July 1990
131
Iraq invades Kuwait
August 1990
132
German Unification
October 1990
133
Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize
October 1990
134
Signing of CFE Treaty and Paris Charter
November 1990
135
Warsaw Pact disbands
February 1991
136
UN forces expel Iraq from Kuwait
February 1991
137
Georgia declares independence from USSR
April 1991
138
Yeltsin becomes president of Russia
June 1991
139
Failed coup against Gorbachev, Yeltsin condemns hardliners
August 1991
140
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus declare independence
August 1991
141
11,000 Soviet personnel are withdrawn from Cuba
September 1991
142
Ukraine votes for independence
December 1991
143
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus declare USSR no longer exists
December 1991
144
Gorbachev resigns
December 1991
