ALL COLD WAR DATES Flashcards
1
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When was Yalta
A
Feburary 1945
2
Q
When was the Nokiov Telegram?
A
September 1946
3
Q
When did the Greek Civil War start and end?
A
March 1946 - August 1949
4
Q
When was the Mutual Security Act?
A
May 1951
5
Q
When does the CIA form?
A
July 1947
6
Q
When was the Czech Coup?
A
Feburary 1948
7
Q
When was the Tito - Stalin split?
Yugoslavia leave E.Bloc
A
Mid 1948
8
Q
When was Potsdam
A
July 1945
9
Q
When was Hiroshima / Nagasaki
A
August 1945
10
Q
When did Japan surrender WW2
A
September 1945
11
Q
When was the Long Telegram
A
Feburary 1946
12
Q
When was the Nokiov telegram?
A
September 1946
13
Q
When was the Iron Curtain speech?
A
March 1946 (Missouri)
14
Q
When was the Truman doctrine?
A
March 1947
15
Q
When was the Marshall plan?
A
June 1947
16
Q
When was Cominform set up?
A
October 1947
17
Q
When was the Berlin blockade
A
June 1948 - May 1949
18
Q
When was Comecon set up?
A
Janurary 1949
19
Q
When was NATO formed?
A
April 1949
20
Q
When were the 2 Germany’s created?
A
May 1949 - FRG (West) & October GDR (East).
21
Q
When did the USSR detonate the first atomic bomb
A
August 1949
22
Q
When did Mao win in China / formation of PRC
A
October 1949
23
Q
When was NSC - 68
A
April 1950
24
Q
When did North Korea invade South Korea
A
June 1950
25
When did China intervene in the Korean war after western forces got to the border.
October 1950
26
When was the Sino Soviet treaty of friendship and alliance
Feburary 1950
27
When was Eisenhower elected president
November 1952
28
When does Stalin die
**March** 1953
29
When was Eisenhowers Chance for Peace speech?
**April** 1953
30
When was the Korean War armistice signed?
**July** 1953
31
When was the New Look Policy?
1953
32
When was Beria executed?
December 1953
33
When did the VietMinh defeat French colonial forces at Dien Bien Phu - splitting Vietnam
March/May 1954
34
When was the Geneva CONFERENCE
**April** 1954 - Eisenhowers domino theory first announced here regarding indochina.
35
When was the Sanfrancisco treaty
September 1951
36
When was SEATO formed
September 1954
37
When does McCarthyism collapse (army - McCarthy hearings)
1954
| Alger Hiss - 1950 (prosecuted) Rosenburgs - 1953 (execution)
38
When is the Warsaw Pack formed?
**May** 1955
39
When was the Geneva SUMMIT?
July 1955 (Eisenhower proposed open skies)
40
When does Khrushchev properly consolidate power
1956
41
When is the Secret Speech
**Feburary** 1956
42
When is the Polish uprising
June - October 1956
43
When was the Hungarian uprising
**October - November** 1956
44
When was the Suez Crisis?
October - November 1956
45
When was the Anti Party group attempted coup
June 1957 - (Malenkov,Molotov)
46
When did the space race start (sputnik)
October, 1957
47
What had happened regarding Gulags by 1958?
**Khrushchev released 8 million political prisoners**
48
When was the Berlin crisis / Ultimatum
**November** 1958
49
When did Fidel Castro take power in Cuba
Janurary 1959
50
When was the Kitchen debate
July 1959
| VP nixon / Khru
51
When was the U2 spy plane incident / Paris summit failure
**May** 1960 **(U2 was 13 days before paris)**
52
When was JFK elected
November 1960
53
When is JFK assassinated / LBJ (VP) becomes president
November 1963
54
When was the failed Bay of Pigs invasion
**April** 1961
55
When was the Vienna Summit?
June 1961 - **6 weeks after Bay of Pigs**
56
When was the Cuban Missile Crisis
**16th - 28th October 1962**
57
When was the Berlin wall erected
**August** 1961
58
When was the Naval Blockade
October 22nd 1962
59
When was the Moscow Test Ban Treaty
August 1963
60
When was the Gulf Of Tonkin resolution passed in US congress
August 1964
61
When is Khrushchev forced to retire / Brezhnev replaces him
October 1964
62
When do China succesfully detonate first atomic bomb
October 1964
63
When does operation rolling thunder being / first US soldiers arrive in Vietnam (Major escalation)
March 1965
64
What was significant by 1965
MAJOR US escalation in Vietnam - 400,000 troops - bombing Laos and Cambodia
65
When was the Tet offensive in Vietnam
Janurary - Feburary 1968 (Spring)
66
When does the Prague Spring begin
May - August 1968
67
When do Warsaw pact troops/tanks invade Czechoslovakia
August - 1968
500,000 troops sent by Kremlin
68
When was Nixon elected president
November 1968
69
When was the Brezhnev doctorine announced in response to the Prague Spring.
November 1968
70
When were the key Sino Soviet border clashes on Zhenbao Island?
1969
71
When do Arms limitation talks between the USA and USSR begin
1969
72
When was Nixon Doctorine announced
July 1969
73
When was the Kent State shooting
May 1970 - 4 shot dead
74
When was Ping Pong diplomacy?
1971
- US players visited China in preparation for World Championships in Nagoya, Japan.
75
When is SALT I signed
May 1972
76
When does Nixon visit China
Feburary 1972
77
When was the Paris Peace Agreement
Janurary 1973
78
When were US troops withdrawn from Vietnam
March - 1973
79
When was Allende overthrown by Pinochet in Chile
September 1973
80
When did Nixon Resign/Ford become president
August 1974
81
When did Saigon fall - Vietnam reunified
30 April 1975
82
When were the Helsinki Accords
August 1975
83
When were the first SS20s deployed and how did the US react
March 1976 - US reacted in 1979 with Pershing II missiles
84
When was Jimmy Carter Elected president
November 1976
85
What happened in 1977
More SS20s deployed - Carter pressures USSR for human rights abuses
86
When did Brezhnev die - succeeded by Andropov
November 1982
87
When was the Communist uprising in Afghanistan
1978
88
When was SALT II signed (never ratified)
June 1979 - wasn't ratified due to Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
89
When was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
December 1979
90
When was the US embassy in Iran hostage situation + how many hostages
November 1979 - 53 hostages
91
When was Reagan elected president
November 1980
92
When was Martial Law declared in Poland
December 1981
93
When and what happened at Reagans inaugaration?
Janurary 20th 1981- Minutes after Iranian hostages released
94
When was the US invasion of Grenada
October 1983
95
When did Reagan announce Star Wars
March 1983
96
When was Able Archer
November 1983
97
When does Chernenko die/ Gorbachev succeeds
March 1985
98
When was the Geneva Summit between Gorbachev and Reagan
November 1985
99
When does Andropov die - Chernenko succeeds
Feburary 1984
100
When was Chernobyl
April 1986
101
When was Glasnost and Perestroika introduced
1986
102
When was the Rekyjavik summit between Gorbachev and Reagan
October 1986
103
When was the Washington Summit between Gorbachev and Reagan
October 1986
104
When was the Moscow Summit Between Gorbachev and Reagan
May - June 1988
105
When was George H.W Bush elected president
November 1988
106
When was the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
Feburary 1989
107
When was the German reuinifcation
October 1990
108
When does the Berlin wall come down
9 November 1989
109
When does Poland hold free elections
June 1989
110
When does the Soviet Union Dissolve
26 December 1991
111
When were the Velvet revolutions in Czechoslovakia
December 1989
112
When do Bush and Gorbachev bury the Cold War at the bottom of the Mediterranean in the Malta Summit.
December 1989
113
When do START I talks begin
July 1991
