Dates Flashcards
1
Q
Gomulka replaced by Beirut
A
1948
2
Q
Rajk (Hungary) executed
A
1949
3
Q
Beneš (Czechoslovakia) resigns
A
1948
4
Q
Yugoslavia expelled from Cominform
A
1948
5
Q
‘Long Telegram’
A
22nd February 1946
6
Q
Iron Curtain Speech
A
6 March 1946
7
Q
Britain announce aid to Greek monarchists no longer available
A
February 1947
8
Q
Truman Doctrine
A
1947
9
Q
Cominform established
A
September 1947
10
Q
Marshall Plan begins
A
1947
11
Q
Soviet Union walk out of the Paris Peace Conference
A
July 1947
12
Q
Bizonia formed
A
January 1947
13
Q
NATO formed
A
May 1949
14
Q
Berlin Blockade
A
June 1948 - May 1949
15
Q
German Democratic Republic formed
A
October 1949
16
Q
Moscow Conference
A
March-April 1947
17
Q
London Conference
A
November-December 1947
18
Q
New East German state formed
A
October 1949
19
Q
Potsdam
A
1945
20
Q
Sino-Soviet alliance formed
A
1950
21
Q
Eisenhower becomes US President
A
November 1952
22
Q
NSC 162/2
A
October 1953
23
Q
‘Massive Retaliation’ strategy announced
A
January 1954
24
Q
Geneva Conference
A
July 1954
25
West Germany admitted to NATO
May 1955
26
Yalta Conference
February 1945
27
Hitler commits suicide
April 1945
28
Roosevelt dies
April 1945
29
Churchill defeated in General Election
July 1945
30
Potsdam
July/August 1945
31
Percentages Agreement
1944
32
WW2 ends
September 1945
33
OPLAN 34A
January 1964
34
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
August 2nd 1964
35
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution agreed
August 7th 1964
36
Operation Rolling Thunder
1965-1968
37
NV Four-Point Proposal
1965
38
Operation Ranch Hand approved by Kennedy
1962
39
Tet Offensive
Jan-Feb 1968
40
Nixon becomes President
January 1969
41
Operation Lam Son 719
1971
42
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
26 May 1972
43
The Interim Agreement on the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms
26 May 1972
44
USSR tests its first nuclear weapon
Aug 1949
45
Strategic Perimeter suggested
Jan 1950
46
China forms military alliance with USSR
Feb 1950
47
NSC-68 presented
April 1950
48
China enters Korean War on North Korea's side
Nov 1950
49
San Francisco Peace Treaty
Sept 1951
50
Eisenhower becomes US President
Jan 1953
51
US-Japan Security Treaty
1951
52
National Safe Agency established
August 1952
53
Truman dismissed MacArthur
April 1951
54
Peace negotiations in Korea begin
June 1951
55
Stalin dies
March 1953
56
Panmunjom Armistice Agreement (Korea)
July 1953
57
USSR develops the first ICBM
May 1957
58
Sputnik is launched
October 1957
59
Gaither Report is commissioned
November 1957
60
USSR's released Berlin Ultimatum
November 1958
61
US U-2 spy plane shot down over Soviet territory
May 1960
62
Gagarin is the first man into outer space
April 1961
63
Construction of the Berlin Wall begins
August 1961
64
Kennedy makes 'Ice bin ein Berliner' speech
June 1963
65
The Bermuda Conference
1957
66
Laika launched into 10-day orbit
Nov 1957
67
'Flopnik'
December 1957
68
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) established
1958
69
Khrushchev becomes USSR prime minister
1958
70
Macmillan (British Prime Minister) visits Moscow
Feb 1959
71
Khrushchev visits Camp David
September 1959
72
Batista regime overthrown by Castro
Jan 1959
73
Soviet Politburo members offers economic and military aid to Cuba
Feb 1960
74
Bay of Pigs invasion
April 1961
75
Kennedy authorises Operation Mongoose
Nov 1961
76
Khrushchev deploys nuclear missiles on Cuba
May 1962
77
American U-2 spy planes discover Soviet missile sites on Cuba
Oct 1962
78
Khrushchev withdraws missiles from Cuba
29 Oct 1962
79
Moscow Test Ban Treaty Agreed
August 1963
80
ExComm established
16 Oct 1962
81
'Hot line' established
June 1963
82
Kennedy assassinated
Nov 1963
83
Khrushchev removed from office
Oct 1964
84
Non-Proliferation Treaty
July 1968
85
US-Soviet arms limitations discussions begin
1969
86
SALT I signed
1972
87
Brezhnev dies
November 1982
88
Chernobyl disaster and Sakharov released
1986
89
Glasnost announced by Gorbachev
1988
90
USA boycott Moscow Olympics
1980
91
Strategic Defence Initiative
1983
92
European Commission
June 1988
93
Geneva Summit
November 1985
94
Reykjavik Summit
October 1986
95
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty signed
December 1987
96
Washington Summit
December 1987
97
Gorbachev announces that Soviet troops will withdraw from Afghanistan
February 1988
98
Moscow Summit
May-June 1988
99
Kadar resigns as Secretary-general
1988
100
Hungary gov remove fence on border with East Germany
2 May 1989
101
Federal Republic of Germany created
3 October 1990
102
Brezhnev Doctrine abandoned
1985
103
Bush becomes President of USA
November 1988
104
Malta Summit
Dec 1989
105
Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty
Nov 1990
106
Moscow Summit (final summit of Cold War)
July 1991
107
Soviet Union formally dissolved
December 1991
108
Reunification of Germany
October 1990
109
Lithuania declares its independence
Feb 1990
110
Estonia declares its independence
March 1990
111
Latvia declares its independence
May 1990
112
Coup to overthrow Gorbachev
August 1991
113
Gorbachev resigns
24 August 1991
114
Commonwealth of the Independent States established
December 1991
115
USSR Supreme Soviet vote to dissolve itself
26 December 1991
116
Civil War in Angola begins
Spring 1975
117
Sino-Soviet split
1961
118
Allende wins elections in Chile
September 1970
119
Allende overthrown in military coup
September 1973
120
US invasion of Grenada
Oct 1983
121
Sandinista National Liberation Font seize power from Somoza in Nicaragua
June 1979
122
The Contras founded in Nicaragua
March 1981
123
Austrian State Treaty
May 1955
124
Federal Republic of Germany admitted to NATO
May 1955
125
Geneva Summit
July 1955
126
Khrushchev's Secret Police
Feb 1956
127
Polish Rising
June-Oct 1956
128
Hungarian Rising
Oct-Nov 1956
129
Camp David Talks
Sep 1959
130
Paris Summit
May 1960
131
