International Relations - Timeline Flashcards
(19 cards)
Armistice in the Korean War (begun 1950) signed
July 1953
Suez Crisis
July-Nov 1965
British hydrogen bomb tested
May 1957
EEC established
January 1958
Britain applies for EEC membership; vetoed by France in 1963
August 1961
USA agrees to supply Britain with Polaris missiles
December 1962
Southern Rhodesia makes unilateral declaration of independence
November 1965
Britain’s second application to join the EEC; vetoed by France in November
May 1967
British vote 2:1 in favour of remaining in EEC
June 1975
Mugabe’s ZANU party wins power in Zimbabwe
March 1980
Falklands War
April-June 1982
US invasion of Grenada
October 1983
US cruise missiles deployed in Britain
November 1983
Iraq invasion of Kuwait
August 1990
Gulf War to expel Iraq from Kuwait
Jan-Feb 1991
Anglo-Russian trade and defence agreements
November 1992
NATO bombing of Bosnian Serbs
Aug-Sept 1995
North Atlantic Treaty
1949
Collapse of the USSR
1991
