Cold War - Dates & Abbreviations Flashcards

(30 cards)

1
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Cold War

(duration) of your course

A

1945-1972

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2
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Yalta Conference

A

January 1945

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3
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Potsdam Conference

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July / August 1945

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4
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Truman Doctrine

A

1947

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5
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Marshall Plan

A

1948

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6
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Cominform

A

1947 - Communist Information Bureau

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7
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Comecon

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1949 - Council for Mutual Economic Aid

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8
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Berlin Blockade / Airlift

A

(June) 1948

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9
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Stalin calls off Berlin Blockade

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(May) 1949

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10
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NATO

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(April) 1949 - North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

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11
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Warsaw Pact

A

1955

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12
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China becomes Communist

A

1949

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13
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Stalin dies

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1953

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14
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Khrushchev becomes USSR ruler

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1955

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15
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Khrushchev’s Secret Speech

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1956

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16
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Hungarian Uprising

A

(October) 1956

17
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U2 Spy Plane Incident

18
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Berlin Crisis

19
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Prague Spring

Czechoslavakia

20
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Bay Of Pigs

21
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Cuban Missile Crisis

22
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S.A.L.T 1

A

1972 - Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

23
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Korean War

duration

24
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Sputnik

25
ICBM | no year
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
26
MAD | no year
Mutually Assured Destruction
27
Apollo
1969
28
Polaris Submarines
1959
29
USSR sends the first man into space (Yuri Gagarin)
1961
30
Vietnam War | duration
1955-1975