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