Timeline Flashcards
1
Q
Formation of Grand Alliance
A
1941
2
Q
Tehran conference
A
1943
3
Q
Yalta conference
A
Feb 1945
4
Q
Potsdam conference
A
July-Aug 1945
5
Q
USA detonates 1st atomic bomb
A
Aug 1945
6
Q
USSR forms satellite states
A
1944-8
7
Q
Iron Curtain speech
A
1946
8
Q
Truman Doctrine speech
A
March 1947
9
Q
Cominform
A
Sep 1947
10
Q
Marshall Plan
A
1948-52
11
Q
Trizonia & Bizonia formed
A
March 1948
12
Q
Deutschmark currency introduced
A
June 1948
13
Q
Stalin closes land routes into Trizonia
A
June 1948
14
Q
Operation Vittles / Berlin airlift
A
June 1948
15
Q
USSR develops its 1st atomic bomb
A
Aug 1949
16
Q
Comecon
A
Jan 1949
17
Q
Federal Republic of Germany created (West)
A
May 1949
18
Q
German Democratic Republic created (East)
A
Oct 1949
19
Q
Warsaw Pact created
A
1955
20
Q
Hungarian Uprising
A
1956
21
Q
Berlin Ultimatum
A
Nov 1958
22
Q
Geneva summit 1
A
May 1959
23
Q
Camp David summit
A
Sep 1959
24
Q
Paris summit
A
1960
25
Vienna summit
1961
26
Berlin wall begins to be built
Aug 1961
27
Bay of Pigs invasion
April 1961
28
Cuban Missile Crisis
Oct 1962
29
Outer Space Treaty signed
1967
30
Prague Spring
1968
31
SALT 1 signed
1972
32
Helsinki accords signed
1975
33
SALT 2 signed
June 1979
34
USSR invades Afghanistan
Dec 1979
35
Carter Doctrine
Jan 1980
36
Boycott of Moscow Olympic Games
Summer 1980
37
Reagan becomes president
1981
38
Reagan announces SDI
1983
39
Gorbachev elected
1985
40
Geneva summit 2 (the one in the '80s)
1985
41
Reykjavik summit
1986
42
Washington summit
1987
43
Moscow summit
1988
44
Malta summit
1989
45
Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria
May 1989
46
Solidarity wins elections in Poland
June 1989
47
Berlin Wall taken down
Nov 1989
48
Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia
Nov-Dec 1989
49
Communist leader of Bulgaria resigns on national TV
Dec 1989
50
President Ceausescu of Romania captured + executed
Dec 1989
51
Germany formally reunified
1990
52
Gorbachev resigns + USSR collapses
Christmas 1991
