Timeline Of The Cold War

Question 1

1940’s

Answer 1

45 Feb 4th-11th; Yalta conference, Cold War begins
45 Aug 6th; US uses atomic bomb
46 Mar; Iron Curtain speech
47 Mar; Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War
48 Feb; Czechoslovakia
48 June 24th; Berlin Blockade begins
49 July; Nato ratified
49 Sep; Mao Zedong takes control of China, Soviets make atomic bomb

Question 2

1950’s

Answer 2

50 Feb; Joe Mcarthy starts commie witch hunt
50 June; Korean war begins
53 July; Korean war ends
55 May; Warsaw pact formed
56 Oct; Hungary rebellion put down
58 Nov; Khrushchev demands Berlin troops are withdrawn
59 Jan; Cuba is taken over by Fidel Castro

Question 3

1960’s

Answer 3

60 May; US spy plane was shot down
61 April; Bay of Pigs invasion
61 Aug 17th; Construction of the Berlin Wall begins
62; US involvement in Vietnam increased
62 Oct; Cuban missile crisis
63 July; Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified
64 Aug; Gulf of Tonkin incident
65 July; Announcement of dispatching 150,000 US troops to Vietnam
68 Aug; Soviet troops crush Czechoslovakia revolt

Question 4

1970’s

Answer 4

70 April; Vietnam war extends to Cambodia
72 July; SALT 1 signed (Deténte)
73 Jan; Ceasefire in Vietnam
75 April 17; North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam
79 July; SALT 2 signed

Question 5

1980’s

Answer 5

83; President Reagan proposes Strategic Defence Initiative
85; Gorbachev ascends to power in Soviet Union
86 Oct; Reagan & Gorbachev resolve to remove all nukes in Europe
87 Oct; Reagan & Gorbachev sign treaty to remove all short range nukes
89 Jan; Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan
89 Nov; Berlin Wall falls
89 Dec; Communist governments in EE fall

Question 6

1990’s

Answer 6

90 Mar; Lithuania becomes independent
90 Oct 3rd; Germany reunited
91 April; Warsaw Pact ends
91 Aug; Cold War ends