Dates Flashcards
(24 cards)
The Long Telegram
February 1946
Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech, otherwise known as Sinews of Peace
March 1946
The Yalta Conference
February 1945
The Postdam Conference
July 1945
Tehran Conference
1943
The Iran Crisis
March 1946 - confirmed British and American fears that the USSR was preparing to expand its influence. Leading to the final breakdown of the Grand Alliance
The Truman Doctrine
March 1947- helping governments that were threatened by communism
The Marshall Plan
June 1947- intended to revive capitalism in Western Europe and in so doing prevent Western Europe from coming under the influence of communism.
The Berlin Blockade
1948-1949
China’s Fall to Communism
1949
1917
Russian Revolution
America Enters WW1
1918
End of the War
Soviet Union lose Poland+the Baltic states
1921
Russian Civil War
Poland gets independence
1928
5 year Plan made by Stalin
Stalin comes to power
1937-1939
The Great Terror- the purges
The Nazi Soviet Pact- which meant Stalin got part of Poland
1941
Operation Barborossa
Pearl Harbour
1944
Percentages Agreement between Stalin and Churchill
Moscow conference
1945
Truman Came into power
And the conferences
1946
Novikov Telegram
Greek Civil War
1947
CIA formed
European Recovery programme in Place, with the beginning of Truman’s iron fist policy forming
1948
Berlin Crisis begins
European Recovery programme put into place
Salami Tactics taking over Europe
1949
Soviets explode its first atomic bomb
NATO is formed
1950
Beginning of the Korean War
1953
Korean War ends and Stalin’s Death
