DATES Flashcards
1
Q
French invasion of the Ruhr valley
A
1923
2
Q
Berlin Wall built
A
1961
3
Q
Japan invaded China
A
1937
4
Q
Brezhnev doctrine
A
1968
5
Q
Warsaw Pact officially ends
A
1991
6
Q
Korean War
A
1950
7
Q
Hitler’s “10 year friendship” pact with Poland
A
1934
8
Q
USSR boycotts LA Olympics
A
1984
9
Q
USA’s Atlas ICBM
A
1957
10
Q
Hungary opens border with Austria
A
May 1989
11
Q
Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia
A
21st August 1968
12
Q
USA develops hydrogen bomb
A
1952
13
Q
Berlin blockade
A
1948
14
Q
The Tet Offensive
A
1968
15
Q
Geneva summit (Reagan and Gorbachev)
A
1985
16
Q
Hitler takes over rest of Czechoslovakia
A
March 1939
17
Q
SALT 2 treaty (NOT RATIFIED)
A
1979
18
Q
Young plan
A
1929
19
Q
Italy leaving League
A
1937
20
Q
Ceasefire in Vietnam
A
1973
21
Q
Geneva protocol
A
1924
22
Q
Germany reunified
A
1990
23
Q
Tehran conference
A
November-December 1943
24
Q
Dawes plan
A
1924
25
Great Depression
1929
26
Warsaw Pact
1955
27
Aaland Islands dispute
1921
28
Communist party takes over Czechoslovakia
February 1948
29
USSR invades Afghanistan
December 1979
30
Marshall plan
1947
31
Berlin airlift
June 1948-May 1949
32
Nuclear test ban treaty
1963
33
Anti-communism leader, Boris Yeltsin, elected
1991
34
Hitler brings in military conscription in Germany
1935
35
Comecon was set up
1949
36
USSR hydrogen bomb
1955
37
President Johnson sends in more troops and begins bombing campaign against North Vietnam
1963
38
Hitler invades Poland
1st September 1939
39
USSR getting expelled from League
1939
40
Treaty of Lausanne
1923
41
Yalta conference
February 1945
42
Japan signed treaty with Germany
1936
43
Gorbachev abandons Brezhnev doctrine
1988
44
Potsdam conference
August 1945
45
Introduction of martial law in Poland by Jaruzelski
1981
46
My Lai massacre
1968
47
Saar returns to Germany after plebiscite
January 1935
48
USA boycotts Moscow Olympics
1980
49
Germany and Japan leaving LoN
1933
50
Ceasefire agreed in Korea
1953
51
Treaty of Trianon
1920
52
Truman doctrine
1947
53
Reduction of weapons and troops in soviet armed forces
1988
54
Stalin dies and Khrushchev comes to power
1953
55
Soviets tanks invade Hungary
1956
56
Gorbachev comes to power
1985
57
Soviets test fired first ICBM
1957
58
Fall of communist government because of anti-communist demonstrations
December 1989
59
Rapallo treaty
1922
60
Treaty of St Germain
1919
61
Anti-Comintern pact
1937
62
Hitler threatens Czechoslovakia
May 1938
63
Treaty of Sevrès
1920
64
Geneva summit
1955
65
Iron curtain speech
1946
66
USSR withdraws forces from Afghanistan
1988
67
USA dropped atomic bombs on Japan
August 1945
68
Invasion of Abyssinia
October 1935
69
Hitler becomes chancellor
1933
70
Geneva conference
1954
71
Anschluss
March 1938
72
Hungarian uprising
October 1956
73
Most troops are withdrawn from Vietnam
1972
74
Helsinki agreement
1975
75
Fall of the Berlin Wall
November 1989
76
Prague spring in Czechoslovakia
1968
77
Kellogg-brand pact
1928
78
Free elections held in Poland where solidarity wins and new non-communist government
June 1989
79
Failed coup in USSR and end of Russian communism
1991
80
Brezhnev-Nixon summits
1972
81
Germany surrenders
May 1945
82
Italy invading Corfu
1923
83
USSR explodes A-bomb
1949
84
Solidarity in Poland
1980
85
Nazi-Soviet pact
August 1939
86
Khrushchev visits the USA
1959
87
Bay of pigs
April 1961
88
Further nationwide strikes in Poland that forced government to negotiate with solidarity
1988
89
U-2 spy planes detect soviet missiles in Cuba
1962
90
When did the league begin
January 1920
91
China and North Korea capture Seoul
January 1951
92
Treaty of Neuilly
1919
93
Hitler sends troops into the Rhineland
March 1936
94
Disarmament INF treaty
1987
95
Washington conference
1921
96
Ronald Reagan becomes president
1980
97
Rome-Berlin axis
1936
98
Upper Silesia dispute
1921
99
Cuban missile crisis
1962
100
Anglo-German naval agreement
1935
101
Locarno treaties
1925
102
Austrian state treaty
1955
103
Greece invading Bulgaria
1925
104
Revolution in Romania and dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was excited
Christmas 1989
105
U-2 American spy plane shot down
1960
106
NATO
1949
107
Munich conference
29th September 1938
108
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
September 1931
109
UN forces drove North Korea back over 38th parallel
September 1950
110
Pact of steel
1939
111
SALT 1 treaty
1972
112
When was the treaty of Versailles signed?
June 1919
