Cold War Flashcards
1945
Yalta Conference
Potsdam Conference
Truman President
1946
Iron Curtain speech
1947
Truman Doctrine
Marshall plan
1948
Berlin blockade
Airlift
Currency change
1949
Chinese revolution
Berlin blockade and airlift ended
Soviet=a bomb
NATO
1950
Korean War begins
1952
America develop H bomb
1953
Stalin Dies
Soviets h bomb
Eisenhower president
Korean War ended
1955
Germany joins nato
Warsaw pact established
1956
Socialism speech
Hungarian revolution
1957
Sputnik
1958
Americans sent explorer 1 into space
1959
Cuban revolution
1960
U2 crisis
Paris summit
Americans develop SLBMs
1961
Kennedy becomes president
Bay of pigs
Berlin Wall
1962
Cuban missile crisis
1963
Telephone hot line
Nuclear testing banned
Kennedy assassination
1965
Vietnam war begins
1968
Tet offensive
Prague spring
Brezhnev doctrine
1969
Nixon becomes president
Man in the moon
SALT 1
1972
SALT 1 signed