Super Power Relations Dates 1928-1963

Question 1

Stalin signed the ‘Nazi Soviet Pact’ with Germany

Answer 1

1939

Question 2

Formation of United Nations

Answer 2

1941

Question 3

Operation Barbarossa (German invasion of Russia)

Answer 3

June 1941

Question 4

Tehran conference (Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt to agree next strategy for war and to make plans for reconstruction of Europe)

Answer 4

28th Nov - 1st Dec 1943

Question 5

Dday (launch of allied invasion of Europe)

Answer 5

June 1944

Question 6

Yalta conference (big 3:FDR, Churchill, Stalin - Soviet Union has control of Eastern Europe)

Answer 6

Feb 4-11 1945

Question 7

President Roosevelt dies, replaced by Truman

Answer 7

April 12 1945

Question 8

VE Day - victory in Europe. Germany surrenders to red army in Berlin

Answer 8

May 8 1945

Question 9

Americans successfully test an atomic bomb in New Mexico desert

Answer 9

July 16 1945

Question 10

Potsdam conference starts - Germany officially partitioned into 4 zones of occupation

Answer 10

July 17 1945

Question 11

US drop atomic bomb on Hiroshima (20 kiloton bomb ‘little boy’ kills 80,000)

Answer 11

August 6 1945

Question 12

US drop atomic bomb on Nagasaki (22 kiloton ‘fat man’ kills 70,000)

Answer 12

August 9 1945

Question 13

Japanese surrender - end of WW2

Churchill sends British troops to Greece to help Greek monarchy against communists

Answer 13

August 14 1945

Question 14

Long telegram - Truman receives secret telegram from US ambassador in Moscow reporting that Stalin was building up the arsenal of the USSR and had called for destruction of capitalism

Answer 14

1946

Question 15

“Sinews of peace” iron curtain speech by Churchill - “an ‘iron curtain’ has descended on Europe”

Answer 15

March 5 1946

Question 16

Communists gain 80% vote in Romania - Romania becomes communist country

Answer 16

Nov 1946

Question 17

Civil war develops in Greece between Royalists and Communists. British had 40,000 troops in Greece to help fight against the Royalists but have to tell America they can’t afford to do so

Answer 17

1946 (end)

Question 18

Bizonia created in Germany

Answer 18

1947

Question 19

Poland - rigged elections - communist government formed - Poland communist

Answer 19

Jan 1947

Question 20

Truman doctrine - Truman declares active role in Greek civil war

Answer 20

March 12 1947

Question 21

Marshall plan announced - precedent for helping countries combat poverty, disease and malnutrition. The plan made $17b available to Eastern Europe countries affected by WW2

Answer 21

June 1947

Question 22

Communists seize control of Humgary

Answer 22

August 1947

Question 23

Stalin sets up cominform (communist information bureau) to coordinate the work of the communist parties of Eastern Europe

Answer 23

October 1947

Question 24

Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia

Answer 24

Feb 25 1948

Question 25

Western allies announce plan to create a west German state and introduce a new currency called the Deutschmark

Answer 25

June 1948

Question 26

Berlin blockade and Berlin airlift begin lasting 11 months

Answer 26

June 24 1948

Question 27

Comecon established for mutual assistance between communist states

Answer 27

1949

Question 28

NATO formed as defensive alliance

Answer 28

April 4 1949

Question 29

Berlin blockade ends

Answer 29

May 12 1949

Question 30

Russia tested it's first atomic bomb

Answer 30

29 August 1949

Question 31

Communist Mao Zedong takes control of China and establishes the People's Republic of China

Answer 31

Oct 1 1949

Question 32

Truman approved H-bomb development

Answer 32

Jan 30 1950

Question 33

Korean War begins - Stalin supports NK who invade SK equipped with Soviet weapons. Truman States that Asia comes under the Truman Doctrine and sends American troops to Korea under UN banner and leadership of General MacArthur

Answer 33

June 24 1950

Question 34

China enters Korean War

Answer 34

Nov 1950

Question 35

Truman replaced by Eisenhower | -both USA and USSR have developed Hydrogen bombs as part of Arms race

Answer 35

1953

Question 36

Korean War ends

Answer 36

July 1953

Question 37

Death of Stalin replaced by Nikita Krushchev

Answer 37

March 5 1953 and onwards

Question 38

Warsaw Pact formed

Answer 38

May 1955

Question 39

USSR sent tanks into Poznan, Poland to suppress demonstrations by workers

Answer 39

June 29 1956

Question 40

Hungarian crisis - Rebellion put down in Communist Hungary

Answer 40

Oct-Nov 1956

Question 41

Suez crisis - began with Israeli attack led by Moshe Dayan against Egyptian forces in the Sinai. Egypt took control of Suez Canal

Answer 41

October 29 1956

Question 42

Vostok rocket launched 1st ICBM

Answer 42

Aug 26 1957

Question 43

Sputnik launched into orbit by USSR

Answer 43

Oct 4 1957

Question 44

Sputnik II launched by USSR

Answer 44

Nov 3 1957

Question 45

Explorer I launched by USA

Answer 45

Jan 31 1958

Question 46

Krushchev demands withdrawal of troops from Berlin

Answer 46

Nov 1958

Question 47

Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro after overthrow of leader Batista

Answer 47

Jan 1959

Question 48

Krushchev visits USA

Answer 48

Sep 1959

Question 49

U2 spy plane incident - Soviet Union reveals that US spy plane shot down over Soviet territory Paris Conference between USSR and USA

Answer 49

May 1960

Question 50

JFK elected president of USA

Answer 50

Nov 1960

Question 51

Cuba openly aligns itself with Soviet Union and their policies

Answer 51

Dec 19 1960

Question 52

Bay of pigs invasion

Answer 52

April 1961

Question 53

Berlin border is closed

Answer 53

Aug 13 1961

Question 54

Construction of Berlin Wall begins

Answer 54

Aug 17 1961

Question 55

Soviet technicians start to install ballistic missiles on Cuba (90 miles from the coast of USA)

Answer 55

Sep 1962

Question 56

U2 spy plane took photos of Cuba showing construction of IRBM bases bring constructed leading to Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 56

Oct 14 1962

Question 57

Kennedy makes 'ich bin ein Berlinner' speech in Berlin

Answer 57

1963

Question 58

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified (agreed)

Answer 58

July 1963

Question 59

JFK assassinated in Dallas, Texas

Answer 59

Nov 1963

Question 60

Stalin becomes leader of Russia

Answer 60

1928