Dates Flashcards
When the events happened (110 cards)
1
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Manhattan Project began
A
1939
2
Q
Tehran Conference
A
1943
3
Q
Yalta Conference
A
February 1945
4
Q
President Roosevelt dies
A
12th April 1945
5
Q
Germany surrendered from WWII
A
May 1945
6
Q
Potsdam Conference
A
July - August 1945
7
Q
Hiroshima
A
6th August 1945
8
Q
Nagasaki
A
9th August 1945
9
Q
How many people died from Hiroshima
A
70 000 - 140 000
10
Q
How many people died from Nagasaki
A
40 000 - 70 000
11
Q
How many people died from the atomic bombs in total
A
110 000 - 210 000
12
Q
How much of Hiroshima’s infrastructure was destroyed
A
60%
13
Q
What area did the blast on Hiroshima devestate
A
An area of 5 square miles
14
Q
What was the blast on Nagasaki equivalent to?
A
Over 12 000 tons of TNT used in ordinary bombs
15
Q
‘Long Telegram’ sent
A
February 1946
16
Q
How many words was the Long Telegram?
A
8 000 words
17
Q
Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ speech
A
5th March 1946
18
Q
Novikov Telegram sent
A
September 1946
19
Q
Truman Doctrine
A
12th March 1947
20
Q
Marshall Aid Plan
A
June 1947
21
Q
How much money was given in the Marshall Plan?
A
$13 billion
22
Q
Cominform created
A
22nd September 1947
23
Q
Trizonia created
A
March 1948
24
Q
Trizonia introduces a single currency - Deutschmark
A
June 1948
25
Berlin Blockade began
24th June 1948
26
Comecon
25th January 1949
27
Nato created
April 1949
28
Berlin Blockade lifted
12th May 1949
29
Creation of FRG
23rd May 1949
30
Soviet scientists successfully test atomic bomb
29th August 1949
31
East Germany becomes GDR
7th October 1949
32
War broke out in Korea
June 1950
33
Korean War ended
July 1953
34
USA successfully tests hydrogen bomb
November 1952
35
Eisenhower becomes US President
January 1953
36
Stalin dies
5th March 1953
37
Soviet scientists successfully test hydrogen bomb
August 1953
38
West Germany joins Nato
9th May 1955
39
Warsaw Pact created
May 1955
40
Khrushchev makes a speech criticising Stalin
February 1956
41
Rakosi, the Stalinist leader of Hungary fell from power
July 1956
42
Imre Nagy came to power in Hungary and became Prime Minister
24th October 1956
43
Imre Nagy announced that Hungary was leaving the Warsaw Pact
3rd November 1956
44
What was the response to 3rd November 1956
Shortly after, 1000 tanks and 200 000 soldiers invaded claiming that Communists were being killed
45
US launches the first ICBM, which could hit a target from over 4 500km away
June 1957
46
Soviet Union gets ICBM
August 1957
47
Imre Nagy executed
June 1958
48
Khrushchev issues the Berlin Ultimatum
27th November 1958
49
Fidel Castro takes power in Cuba in a revolution
January 1959
50
Khrushchev and Eisenhower attend Geneva Summit
May 1959
51
Cuban government take away land owned by foreign nationals
May 1959
52
Khrushchev arrives in the USA
15th September 1959
53
Camp David Summit with Khrushchev and Eisenhower
September 1959
54
Khrushchev signs an agreement with Castro to buy Cuban sugar in exchange for weapons
February 1960
55
Soviet Union shoots down American U-2 spy plane
1st May 1960
56
Leaders of France, Britain, USA and USSR met at Paris Summit
17th May 1960
57
John F. Kennedy takes over as US president
January 1961
58
59
Construction of the Berlin Wall began
12th August 1961
60
Peter Fechter died trying to cross the Berlin Wall
1962
61
Kennedy gave his 'Ich bin ein Berliner' speech
26th June 1963
62
Leonid Brezhnev comes to power in the USSR
1964
63
Alexander Dubcek appointed new leader of Czechoslovakia
January 1968
64
Dubcek introduces a series of reforms
April 1968
65
Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia because of Dubcek
20th August 1968
66
Richard Nixon becomes US president
January 1969
67
SALT 1
May 1972
68
Brezhnev visits the USA
1973
69
Helsinki Accords
August 1975
70
Iranian Revolution
April 1979
71
SALT 2
June 1979
72
Islamic militants capture the US embassy in Tehran
November 1979
73
USSR invades Afghanistan
24th December 1979
74
Carter Doctrine
January 1980
75
Speech from Reagan calling the USSR an 'evil empire'
8th March 1983
76
Reagan announced SDI
23rd March 1983
77
Boycott of Moscow Olympics
1980
78
Boycott of Los Angeles Olympics
1984
79
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes new Soviet leader
March 1985
80
Leonid Brezhnev dies
10th November 1982
81
Geneva Summit between Gorbachev and Reagan
November 1985
82
Reykjavik Summit
October 1986
83
Washington Summit
December 1987
84
Moscow Summit
May-June 1988
85
Malta Summit
December 1989
86
Hungary opens its border with Austria
May 1989
87
Multi-party elections held in Hungary
October 1989
88
Elections mark the end of communist rule in Poland
June 1989
89
'Velvet Revolution' overthrows the communist government in Czechoslovakia
December 1989
90
Communist governments in Romania and Bulgaria fall
December 1989
91
Communist Yugoslavia breaks up into 7 independent states
December 1990
92
Solidarity created
1980
93
Leaders of Solidarity arrested
13th December 1981
94
Government legalises Solidarity
April 1989
95
Solidarity won a landslide victory
June 1989
96
East Germany closes their border with Czechoslovakia
October 1989
97
Czechoslovakian government violently suppresses a peaceful student protest
17th November 1989
98
Communist Czech leader resigns
10th December 1989
99
Anti-communist Czech leader introduced
29th December 1989
100
Protests against the communist government began in Romania
21st December 1989
101
Romanian leader and his family killed
25th December 1989
102
Mass protests in Bulgaria
17th November 1989
103
Bulgarian leader resigns on live TV
11th December 1989
104
Reagan gives a speech in Berlin telling Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall'
June 1987
105
One million East Germans attend a rally to demand democracy
4th November 1989
106
The East German government permits travel between East and West Berlin. People begin to pull down the wall
9th November 1989
107
Germany officially reunified
October 1990
108
Gorbachev resigns
25th December 1991
109
Warsaw Pact ended
July 1991
110
Between when did Yugoslavia break into 7 separate states
June 1991 and April 1992
