Timeline

Question 1

1945

Answer 1

• Jan/Feb: Yalta Conference
• May: The Defeat of Germany
• July: Potsdam Conference
• August: The Defeat of Japan
• Roosevelt dies and Truman becomes US president
• Formation of the UN

Question 2

1946

Answer 2

• Beginning of the French-Indochina War

- Churchill’s “iron curtain” speech

Question 3

1947

Answer 3

• March: The Truman Doctrine
• The Marshall Plan
• Cominform

Question 4

1948

Answer 4

• Czechoslovakia fully taken over by communists
• Berlin Blockade and Airlift
• Creation of the State of Israel. First Arab-Israeli War
• UK, US and France unite their zones of Germany
• Germany and Berlin now divided into East vs West

Question 5

1949

Answer 5

• End of the Berlin Blockade
• Soviet Union explodes an atom bomb
• China becomes communist under Mao Zedang
• NATO is established
• Comecon is set up

Question 6

1950

Answer 6

• NSC-68

- North Korea invades South Korea. Start of the Korean War

Question 7

1951

Answer 7

• General MacArthur is sacked by President Truman

Question 8

1952

Answer 8

• Election of Dwight Eisenhower as US President

Question 9

1953

Answer 9

• End of the Korean War
• Stalin dies and Khrushchev becomes Soviet Leader
• Khrushchev begins talks of peaceful coexistence

Question 10

1954

Answer 10

• Battle of Dien Bien Phu

- The Geneva Conference

Question 11

1955

Answer 11

• Ngo Dinh Diem becomes president of South Vietnam

- Warsaw Pact is established

Question 12

1956

Answer 12

• Suez War

- Polish and Hungarian uprisings

Question 13

1957

Answer 13

• launch of Sputnik

Question 14

1958

Answer 14

• Berlin Crisis

Question 15

1959

Answer 15

• Cuban Revolution

- Khrushchev’s visit to the US

Question 16

1960

Answer 16

• U2 incident

- Sino-Soviet Split

Question 17

1961

Answer 17

• Bay of Pigs Invasion
• Kennedy-Khrushchev Vienna Summit
• Building of the Berlin Wall

Question 18

1962

Answer 18

• Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 19

1963

Answer 19

• Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
• Murder of Ngo Dinh Diem
• Assassination of JFK, replaced by Johnson

Question 20

1964

Answer 20

• 23,000 US advisors in Vietnam
• creation of the PLO
• Khrushchev is overthrown, Brezhnev now Soviet Leader
• Vietnam War begins

Question 21

1965

Answer 21

• President Johnson commits troops to Vietnam

Question 22

1966

Answer 22

• 385,000 troops in Vietnam

Question 23

1967

Answer 23

• Six Day War in the Middle East

Question 24

1968

Answer 24

• The TET offensive
• Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia - prague Spring
• Election of President Nixon

Question 25

1969

Answer 25

- Apollo II Moon Landing | - Nixon begins Vietnamisation

Question 26

1970

Answer 26

- US invasion of Cambodia

Question 27

1971

Answer 27

- Kissinger's Secret Mission to China

Question 28

1972

Answer 28

- Nixon-Brezhnev summit - SALT 1 Treaty - Nixon visits China - US Xmas bombing of North Vietnam

Question 29

1973

Answer 29

- Paris Peace Accords. US pulls out of vietnam | - Yom Kippur War in the Middle East

Question 30

1974

Answer 30

- Nixon resigns over Watergate Scandal | - Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty is signed by USA and USSR

Question 31

1975

Answer 31

- South Vietnam taken over by communists - Helsinki Agreement - Joint Soyuz-Apollo space mission

Question 32

1976

Answer 32

- formal reunification of North and South Vietnam | - Jimmy Carter becomes president

Question 33

1977

Answer 33

- Election of President Carter

Question 34

1978

Answer 34

- Camp David Agreement between the US, Israel and Egypt | - Vietnam invades Cambodia

Question 35

1979

Answer 35

- China invades Vietnam - Ayatollah Khomeini takes power in Iran - Iran hostage crisis - Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua - Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan - SALT II is signed - end of detente

Question 36

1980

Answer 36

- unsuccessful US rescue attempt of Iranian hostages | - Election of President Ronald Reagan

Question 37

1981

Answer 37

- over 110,000 Soviet troops in afghanistan

Question 38

1982

Answer 38

- Brezhnev dies. Andropov now soviet leader | - Israeli invasion of Lebanon

Question 39

1983

Answer 39

- US invasion of Grenada - Soviets shoot down Korean flight 007 - Start of SDI (star wars)

Question 40

1984

Answer 40

- Andropov dies. Chernenko becomes Soviet Leader | - Reagan re-elected as president

Question 41

1985

Answer 41

- Reagan embroiled in the Iran-Contra affair - Chernenko dies. Gorbachev becomes soviet leader - Reagan-Gorbachev Geneva summit

Question 42

1986

Answer 42

- Chernobyl incident - Reagan-Gorbachev Reykjavik summit - Glasnost and Perestroika

Question 43

1987

Answer 43

- INF treaty | - start of the Intifada

Question 44

1988

Answer 44

- Reagan visits Moscow

Question 45

1989

Answer 45

- Soviet troops pull out of Afghanistan - East European revolutions - Fall of the Berlin Wall

Question 46

1990

Answer 46

- End of communist control of Eastern Europe confirmed | - reunification of Germany

Question 47

1991

Answer 47

- START treaty signed - August coup by Soviet hard liners against Gorbachev - Collapse of the Soviet Union - End of the Cold War no longer in doubt - Warsaw Pact is dissolved

Question 48

1943

Answer 48

- Tehran conference