Cold War Key Dates Flashcards
(108 cards)
1
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Tehran Conference
A
November 1943
2
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Yalta Conference
A
4th February 1945
3
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Potsdam Conference
A
17th July to 2nd August 1945
4
Q
End of WW2
A
8th May 1945
5
Q
Dropping of the Atomic bomb
A
6th August 1945
6
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Stalin installing pro-soviet ‘puppet’ governments
A
1945-1948
7
Q
Iron Curtain speech
A
5th March 1946
8
Q
Truman Doctrine
A
March 1947
9
Q
Marshall Plan
A
June 1947
10
Q
Cominform
A
September 1947
11
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Comecon
A
January 1949
12
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Yugoslavia expelled from Cominform
A
June 1948
13
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Berlin Blockade
A
24th June 1948- 12th May 1949
14
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Berlin Airlift
A
26th June 1948- 12th May 1949
15
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Formation of NATO
A
4th April 1949
16
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Mao Tse-Tung establishes People’s Republic of China
A
1st October 1949
17
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China becoming Communist
A
1949
18
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Treaty of Friendship
A
February 1950
19
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NSC-68
A
April 1950
20
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Korean War
A
1950-1953
21
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Vietnam War
A
1954-1975
22
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Arms Race
A
1945-1963
23
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Space Race
A
1957-1969
24
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Stalin dies
A
5th March 1953
25
Destalinisation speech
1956
26
Peaceful co-existence
1955 (Geneva)
27
Formation of the Warsaw Pact
May 1955
28
Hungarian Uprising
November 1956
29
U2 Crisis
1st May 1960
30
Paris Peace Summit
14th May 1960
31
The 'Brain Drain'
1949-1961
32
The Vienna Summit
3rd June 1961
33
Berlin Wall
13th August 1961- 1989
34
Checkpoint Charlie
27th October 1961
35
Kennedy's 'Ich bin ein Berliner' speech
June 1963
36
Cuban Revolution
1959
37
Bay of Pigs
17th April 1961
38
Cuban Missile Crisis
22nd- 28th October 1962
39
Limited Test Ban Theory
1963
40
Outer Space Treaty
1967
41
Prague Spring
August 1968
42
Brezhnev Doctrine
August 1968
43
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
1970
44
SALT 1
May 1972
45
How much money did the USA give to Turkey and Greece in the Truman Doctrine?
$400 million
46
How much money did USA give in the Marshall Plan?
$17 billion
47
What currency was West Germany after united?
Deutsche Mark
48
What did US and UK call their unified zones in 1947?
Bizonia
49
How long did the Berlin Airlift last?
318 days/ 11 months
50
How many tonnes were being supplied a day into West Berlin in 1949?
8000
51
How many tonnes were supplied to West Berlin during the Airlift and by how many planes?
1.5 million transported by 275,000 planes
52
How quickly were planes landing in Templehof airport?
Every 3 minutes
53
What were West and East Germany called after being divided in 1949?
WG- Federal Republic of Germany
EG- German Democratic Republic
54
What does Mao Tse-Tung call China?
People's Republic of China
55
What was China's population in 1949?
500 million
56
How much money did Soviets loan to China in 1950?
$300 million
57
How much of the money the Soviets gave China needed to be repaid?
95%
58
How many Soviet experts were sent to help the development of China?
20,000
59
When was Korea liberated from Japanese occupation?
1945
60
Who led the UN forces in the Korean War?
General Douglas MacArthur
61
What was the name of the French colony Vietnam was part of?
Indochina
62
When did the Viet Minh start fighting the French?
1940s
63
When did the Viet Minh defeat the French?
May 1954
64
When did Ngo Dinh Diem become leader of South Vietnam?
1955
65
What group of Vietnamese peasants fought Ngo Dinh Diem?
Vietcong
66
When did Ho Chi Minh declare war on South Vietnam?
1959
67
When did Ngo Dinh Diem set up the Strategic Hamlets policy?
1962
68
When was Ngo Dinh Diem assassinated?
1963
69
When did USA send their first US combat troops to Vietnam?
1965
70
How many US troops were fighting in Vietnam by 1968?
500,000
71
When did US withdraw from Vietnam?
1973
72
USSR's first atomic bomb
1949
73
USA's first hydrogen bomb (Ivy Mike)
1952
74
USSR's first hydrogen bomb
1953
75
USSR's first ICBMs
1957
76
USA's first ICBMs
1958
77
USA's submarine Polaris missiles
1960
78
USA's first Tsar bomb
1961
79
USSR's Sputnik
October 1957
80
USSR's Laika the dog
November 1957
81
USA's satellite Explorer 1
January 1958
82
NASA
July 1958
83
USSR's first human in space Yuri Gagarin
April 1961
84
USA's first space flight by Alan Shepherd
May 1961
85
USSR's first woman in space Valentina Tereshkova
June 1963
86
USA's first men on the moon Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
July 1969
87
List leaders of Hungary in order
1) Matyas Rakosi
2) Erno Gero
3) Imre Nagy
4) Janos Kadar
88
Erno Gero replaces Matyas Rakosi in Hunary
July 1956
89
First mass protest under Gero's leadership in Hungary
October 1956
90
Which US pilot was shot down in the U2 crisis?
Gary Powers
91
Khrushchev's 'Berlin Ultimatum' speech to West
1958
92
What was the movement of educated/skilled people called?
The Brain Drain
93
How many people moved from East to West Germany by 1961?
At least 3 million (20%)
94
By 1961, how many were moving from East to West a day?
2000
95
How long did Checkpoint Charlie last?
18 hours
96
How many were killed trying to move from East to West during the Berlin Wall?
86
97
How many people in West Germany listened to Kennedy's 'Ich bin ein Berliner' speech?
120,000
98
Since what year had Cuba been ruled by Batista and working with the US?
1952
99
When did Castro begin a guerrilla war in Cuba
1956
100
When did the US sever all relations with Cuba
January 1961
101
How much did US spend on Bay of Pigs?
$5 million
102
How many were killed and captured during the Bay of Pigs?
200 killed/ 1200 captured
103
When did Castro publicly announce Cuba as communist?
December 1961
104
When did Khrushchev announce USSR would dismantle Cuban missiles?
28th October 1962
105
When did Dubcek announce his reforms?
April 1968
106
What did Dubcek call his new version of communism?
Socialism with a human face
107
How many soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia?
500,000
108
Who replaced Dubcek as leader of Czechoslovakia?
Gustav Husak
