Big Events Dates Flashcards
1
Q
When was the Marshall Plan?
A
1948
2
Q
When was the Berlin Blockade?
A
1948
3
Q
Truman Doctrine?
A
1947
4
Q
Berlin Airlift?
A
1948-49
5
Q
NATO?
A
April1949
6
Q
Warsaw Pact?
A
1955
7
Q
USA use Atomic Bomb
A
1945
8
Q
USSR get the Atomic Bomb
A
1949
9
Q
Hungarian Uprising
A
1956
10
Q
Cuban revolution and Bay of Pigs and Missile
A
1959-1962
11
Q
Prague Spring
A
1968
12
Q
SALT I
A
1972
13
Q
Berlin Wall
A
August 1961
14
Q
Korean war
A
1950 - 53
15
Q
Treaty of Friendship
A
February 1950
16
Q
U2 plane crisis
A
May 1960
17
Q
Cominform
A
1947
18
Q
Comecon
A
1949
19
Q
When was Castro’s takeover of Cuba?
A
1959
20
Q
When was the Bay of Pigs attack?
A
1961
21
Q
When was the Vietnam War?
A
1955 - 1975
22
Q
When did USA get involved with the Vietnam war?
A
1965
23
Q
When did the USA develop the hydrogen bomb?
A
1952
24
Q
When did the ussr develop the hydrogen bomb?
A
1953
25
When was the battle of done bien phu?
1954
26
When was the domino theory brought up?
Early 1950’s
27
When was the first satellite sent into space?
October 1957
28
When was the first human in space?
April 1961
29
When was the moon landing?
July 1969
30
When was the joint space mission?
July 1975
31
When was the Vienna summit?
June 1961
32
When did the first missies arrive in Cuba?
Summer 1962
33
When did the USA realise what was happening in Cuba?
16 October 1962
34
When did Kennedy receive the letter from kruschev explaining the removal of us bombs in Italy and turkey?
27th October 1962
35
When did the un led us forces invade North Korea?
October 1950
36
When does China join the Korean War?
October 1950
