1950s Flashcards
1
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1950
(4)
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- June 1950-July 1953 - Korean War
- Jan - Defensive Perimeter Strategy
- Feb - Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship
- April - NSC-68
2
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1951
(2)
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- Sept - San-Francisco Treaty and US-Japan Security Treaty
- July - Korean peace talks start
3
Q
1952
(2)
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- McCarthyism
- Nov - 1st H bomb
4
Q
1953
(4)
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- Jan - Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles took office
- March - Stalin died
- July - end of Korean War
- Oct - NSC 612/2
5
Q
1954
(4)
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- July - Geneva Conference and Geneva Accords
- Ngo Dinh Diem appointed leader of SV
- Sept 1954-May 1955 - 1st Taiwan Straits Crisis
- Sept - SEATO
6
Q
1955
(5)
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- Start of space race
- May - FRG joins NATO
- May - Warsaw Pact
- July - Geneva Summit
- Sept - Hallstein Doctrine
7
Q
1956
(7)
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- Feb - Secret Speech
- Khrushchev visited Beijing and met with humiliating reception
- 1956 onwards - Mao criticised Khrushchev’s ‘revisionism’
- June - Communique with Tito
- June-Oct Poland - Uprising
- Oct-Nov - Hungary Uprising
- July-Nov - Suez Crisis
8
Q
1957
(2)
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- 1st ICBMs, USSR
- Oct - Sputnik Satellite
9
Q
1958
(3)
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- ‘life belt’ incident
- Aug-Oct - 2nd Taiwan Straits Crisis
- Nov - 1st Berlin Ultimatum
10
Q
1959
(3)
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- Khrushchev withdrew military advisors from PRC following ‘Great Leap Forwards’
- Jan - Cuban Revolution
- Sept - Camp David visit
