Dates Cold War Flashcards
(98 cards)
1
Q
Hitler attcks USSR. Allies UK and USA
A
June 1941
2
Q
Tehran
A
November 1943
3
Q
Yalta
A
Febuary 1943
4
Q
VE day
A
May 1945
5
Q
Potsdam
A
July 1945
6
Q
USA drops atom bomb
A
August 1945
7
Q
Kennan’s long telegram
A
Febuary 1946
8
Q
Churchil’s Iron Curtain speech
A
March 1946
9
Q
Novicov telegram
A
September 1946
10
Q
Communist government elected in Poland
A
January 1947
11
Q
Communists seize power in Czechoslovakia
A
Febuary 1948
12
Q
Communist government elected in Hungary
A
May 1949
13
Q
Berlin blockade
A
June 1948
14
Q
Comecon
A
January 1949
15
Q
NATO
A
April 1949
16
Q
Federal Republic of Germany founded
A
September 1949
17
Q
German Democratic Republic founded
A
October 1949
18
Q
Warsaw Pact formed
A
May 1955
19
Q
Cominform
A
September 1947
20
Q
Berlin Crisis
A
1948
21
Q
Deutchmark currency
A
June 1948
22
Q
Operation Vittles (Berlin Airlift)
A
June 1948 - May 1949
23
Q
USA tests hydrogen bomb
A
November 1952
24
Q
Eisenhower president
A
January 1953
25
Stalin dies
1953
26
Soviet union tests hydrogen bomb
August 1953
27
German Federal Republic (West germany) joins NATO
May 1955
28
Khrushchev is new leader. Critisises Stalin in speech
Febuary 1956
29
Hungarian uprising crushed
November 1956
30
USA launch inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM)
June 1957
31
Soviet Union test first (ICBM)
August 1957
32
Imre Nagy, Hunarian PM, Executed
June 1958
33
Soviet Union develop Atomic bomb
1949
34
Geneva summit
July 1955
35
Marshall Aid
June 1947
36
Berlin Ultimatum
November 1958
37
Krushchev visits USA
September 1959
38
Camp David summit
September 1959
39
U-2 Crisis
May 1960
40
Paris summit
May 1960
41
Vienna summit (Berlin ultimatum renewed)
June 1961
42
Construction of Berlin Wall begins
August 1961
43
Kennedy visits Berlin
June1963
44
Refugee problem
1958
45
Ich bin ein Berliner speech
June 1963
46
Castro is leader in Cuba
January 1959
47
Cuban goverment nationalises foreign owned land
May 1959
48
Castro signs agreement with Krushchev
Febuary 1960
49
USA brakes off diplomatic relations with Cuba
January 1961
50
Bay of pigs
August 1961
51
Krushchev offers missiles to Cuba
September 1961
52
U-2 spyplane reveals missile silos on Cuba
October 1962
53
ExComm assembled. Start of 13 days
October 1962
54
Hotline set up
June 1963
55
Test ban treaty
August 1963
56
Kennedy announces naval blockade on national tv
October 1962
57
Soviet Union agrees to remove missiles from Cuba
October 1962
58
Outer space treaty, start of space race
1967
59
Nuclear non-prolifiation treaty stopped countries sharing nuclear technology
1968
60
Dubcek becomes leader of Czech government
January 1968
61
Prauge spring reformes
April 1968
62
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
August 1968
63
Brezhnev doctrine
September 1968
64
Dubcek dismissed
April 1969
65
Détente
1967-79
66
Nixon president
1968
67
Drandt elected chancellor of west germany
1960
68
SALT 1
1972
69
Brezhnev visits washington
1973
70
Helsinky accords and apollo-soyuz space mission
1975
71
SALT 2
1979
72
Islamic militants capture american embassy
November 1979
73
Détene ends with soviet invasion of Afghanistan
December 1979
74
Carter doctrine. Moscow boycott, Ronald Regan president. Second coldwar begins
1980
75
Martial law in Poland
1981
76
Death of Brezhnev
1982
77
SDI announced by Regan
1983
78
LA boycott
1984
79
USSR leave Afghanistan
1989
80
Gorbachev new leader of USSR. Geneva summit
1985
81
Reykjavik summit
1986
82
Intermediate range nuclear force treaty (INF)
1987
83
Moscow summit
1988
84
Fall of Berlin wall
1989
85
Gorbachev wins nobel prize
1990
86
Gorbachev overthrown USSR disolves
1991
87
Solidarity is legalised and wins a landslide victory in Poland
June 1989
88
Huge numbers of East Germans leave through Hungary up to a point of 125000 in a day
September 1989
89
Gorbachev refuses to help East German government put down demonstrations
October 1989
90
Border crossing from East to West Berlin to be opened.
November 1989
91
Germany formally united
1990
92
Hungarian takes down border with non-communtist Austria. New democratic government and free elections to be held
May 1989
93
Velvet revolution overthrows the communist Czechoslovakian goverment. Vaclav Havel president
November 1989
94
Demonstrations against communist Romanian government. Communist leader Ceausescu overthrone and executed
December 1989
95
Bulgarian communist leader Perer Mladenov resigns live on national tv. Free elections to be held.
December 1989
96
Slovenians vote independence in free refurendum. Yugoslavia breacks up as Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo amd Macedonia all declare independence
December 1990
97
Warsaw pact ends
July 1991
98
USSR invade Afhanistan
1979
