ALL COLD WAR DATES Flashcards
When was Yalta
Feburary 1945
When was Potsdam
July 1945
When was Hiroshima / Nagasaki
August 1945
When did Japan surrender WW2
September 1945
When was the Long Telegram
Feburary 1946
When was the Nokiov telegram?
September 1946
When was the Iron Curtain speech?
March 1946 (Missouri)
When was the Truman doctrine?
March 1947
When was the Marshall plan?
June 1947
When was Cominform set up?
October 1947
(stalinist loyality - rejection of marshall plan)
When was the Berlin blockade
June 1948 - May 1949
When was Comecon set up?
Janurary 1949
(economic dependence)
When was NATO formed?
April 1949
When were the 2 Germany’s created?
May 1949 - FRG (West) & GDR (East).
When did the USSR detonate the first atomic bomb
August 1949
When did Mao win in China / formation of PRC
October 1949
When was NSC - 68
April 1950
When did North Korea invade South Korea
June 1950
When did China intervene in the Korean war after western forces got to the border.
October 1950
When was the Sino Soviet treaty of friendship and alliance
Feburary 1950
When was Eisenhower elected president
November 1952
When was MacArthur fired
1951
When does Stalin die
March 1953
When was Eisenhowers Chance for Peace speech?
April 1953
When was the Korean War armistice signed?
July 1953
When was the New Look Policy?
1953
When was Beria executed?
December 1953
When did the VietMinh defeat French colonial forces at Dien Bien Phu - splitting Vietnam
March/May 1954
When was the Geneva CONFERENCE
April 1954 - Eisenhowers domino theory first announced here regarding indochina.
When was the Sanfrancisco treaty
September 1951
When was SEATO formed
September 1954
When does McCarthyism collapse (army - McCarthy hearings)
1954
Alger Hiss - 1950 (prosecuted) Rosenburgs - 1953 (execution)
When is the Warsaw Pack formed?
May 1955
When was the Geneva SUMMIT?
July 1955 (Eisenhower proposed open skies)
When does Khrushchev properly consolidate power
1956
When is the Secret Speech
Feburary 1956
When is the Polish uprising
June - October 1956
When was the Hungarian uprising
October - November 1956
When was the Suez Crisis?
October - November 1956
When was the Anti Party group attempted coup
June 1957 - (Malenkov,Molotov)
When did the space race start (sputnik)
October, 1957
What had happened regarding Gulags by 1958?
Khrushchev released 8 million political prisoners
When was the Berlin crisis / Ultimatum
November 1958
When did Fidel Castro take power in Cuba
Janurary 1959
When was the Kitchen debate
July 1959
VP nixon / Khru
When was the U2 spy plane incident / Paris summit failure
May 1960 (U2 was 13 days before paris)
When was JFK elected
November 1960
When is JFK assassinated / LBJ (VP) becomes president
November 1963
When was the failed Bay of Pigs invasion
April 1961
When was the Vienna Summit?
June 1961 - 6 weeks after Bay of Pigs
When was the Cuban Missile Crisis
16th - 28th October 1962
When was the Berlin wall erected
August 1961
When was the Naval Blockade
October 22nd 1962
When was the Moscow Test Ban Treaty
August 1963
When was the Gulf Of Tonkin resolution passed in US congress
August 1964
When is Khrushchev forced to retire / Brezhnev replaces him
October 1964
When do China succesfully detonate first atomic bomb
October 1964
When does operation rolling thunder being / first US soldiers arrive in Vietnam (Major escalation)
March 1965
What was significant by 1965
MAJOR US escalation in Vietnam - 400,000 troops - bombing Laos and Cambodia
When was the Tet offensive in Vietnam
Janurary - Feburary 1968 (Spring)
When does the Prague Spring begin
May - August 1968
When do Warsaw pact troops/tanks invade Czechoslovakia
August - 1968
500,000 troops sent by Kremlin
When was Nixon elected president
November 1968
When was the Brezhnev doctorine announced in response to the Prague Spring.
November 1968
When were the key Sino Soviet border clashes on Zhenbao Island?
1969
When do Arms limitation talks between the USA and USSR begin
1969
When was Nixon Doctorine announced
July 1969
When was the Kent State shooting
May 1970 - 4 shot dead
When was Ping Pong diplomacy?
1971
- US players visited China in preparation for World Championships in Nagoya, Japan.
When is SALT I signed
May 1972
When does Nixon visit China
Feburary 1972
When was the Paris Peace Agreement
Janurary 1973
When were US troops withdrawn from Vietnam
March - 1973
When was Allende overthrown by Pinochet in Chile
September 1973
When did Nixon Resign/Ford become president
August 1974
When did Saigon fall - Vietnam reunified
30 April 1975
When were the Helsinki Accords
August 1975
When were the first SS20s deployed and how did the US react
March 1976 - US reacted in 1979 with Pershing II missiles
When was Jimmy Carter Elected president
November 1976
What happened in 1977
More SS20s deployed - Carter pressures USSR for human rights abuses
When did Brezhnev die - succeeded by Andropov
November 1982
When was the Communist uprising in Afghanistan
1978
When was SALT II signed (never ratified)
June 1979 - wasn’t ratified due to Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
When was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
December 1979
When was the US embassy in Iran hostage situation + how many hostages
November 1979 - 53 hostages
When was Reagan elected president
November 1980
When was Martial Law declared in Poland
December 1981
When and what happened at Reagans inaugaration?
Janurary 20th 1981- Minutes after Iranian hostages released
When was the US invasion of Grenada
October 1983
When did Reagan announce Star Wars
March 1983
When was Able Archer
November 1983
When does Chernenko die/ Gorbachev succeeds
March 1985
When was the Geneva Summit between Gorbachev and Reagan
November 1985
When does Andropov die - Chernenko succeeds
Feburary 1984
When was Chernobyl
April 1986
When was Glasnost and Perestroika introduced
1986
When was the Rekyjavik summit between Gorbachev and Reagan
October 1986
When was the Washington Summit between Gorbachev and Reagan
October 1986
When was the Moscow Summit Between Gorbachev and Reagan
May - June 1988
When was George H.W Bush elected president
November 1988
When was the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
Feburary 1989
When was the German reuinifcation
October 1990
When does the Berlin wall come down
9 November 1989
When does Poland hold free elections
June 1989
When does the Soviet Union Dissolve
26 December 1991
When were the Velvet revolutions in Czechoslovakia
December 1989
When do Bush and Gorbachev bury the Cold War at the bottom of the Mediterranean in the Malta Summit.
December 1989
When do START I talks begin
July 1991
