Cold War Dates Flashcards
When did the Chinese Civil War begin?
1927
When did Japan invade China?
1937
When did the Yalta Conference occur?
February 1945
When did the Potsdam conference occur?
July to August 1945
When did the USSR establish its control over Eastern Europe?
1945-1946
Which original Eastern European countries became a part of the Soviet Sphere?
Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Poland.
When did Czechoslovakia become Communist?
1948
When did the USA drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
August 1945
When did the USSR’s nuclear weapon development plan become a success?
1949
When did Kennan write the telegram?
Early 1946
When did Churchill give the speech about the USSR?
March 1946
When did Britain stop supporting the Greek government?
Early 1947
By when was Western Europe facing economic issues?
By early 1947
When did USA, Britain and France agree to unify their zones of Germany?
June 1948
When did Stalin lift the Berlin blockade?
May 1949
When was West Germany created?
September 1949
When was East Germany created?
October 1949
When did construction the barbed-wire barrier set up in Berlin begin?
The night of the 12th of August 1961.
When was the North Atlantic Treaty signed?
April 1949
When was the Warsaw Pact signed?
1955
When was Batista overthrown?
1 January 1959
When did the Bay of Pigs invasion occur?
April 1961
When did the USA’s quarantine come into effect?
24 October 1962
The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of…
1963
When did Khrushchev lose his position as leader of the USSR?
1964
When did Truman declare American support for a democratic China?
December 1945
When was the Truman Doctrine proclaimed?
March 1947
When was the PRC proclaimed by Mao?
1 October 1949
When did the Hundred Flowers campaign begin?
May 1956
When did the campaign against rightists begin?
June 1957
What year did the Great Leap Forward begin?
1958
When did Mao step down as the Chairman of the PRC?
1959
When did violence break out between different groups fighting for power in China?
1967
When did Mao order the PLA to restore complete order to China?
August 1968
When did the Ussuri and Amur River border clashes occur?
1969
When did Lin Biao try to overthrow Mao?
September 1971
When did Zhou Enlai call for a program of the Four Modernisations?
January 1975
When did Mao die?
September 1976
When did Stalin die?
1953
When did Khrushchev come into power?
1955
When did Nixon first visit China?
Early 1972
When did Mao first go to Moscow?
Late 1949
When was the Sino-Soviet Treaty signed?
14 February 1950
When did the Korean War occur?
1950 to 1953
In what year did the USSR recall its military advisers from China?
1959
When did the CCP write the formal letter to the CPSU, accusing them of being revisionist?
1963
When did China test a nuclear bomb for the first time?
1964
When did China produce its first hydrogen bomb?
1967
When did Gorbachev visit Beijing to patch up relations?
May 1989
When did Kissinger meet Enlai in Beijing?
July 1971
When did China first occupy Tibet?
1950
When did the Dalai Lana flee to India?
March 1959
When did conflict between Pakistan and India over Kashmir begin?
1947
When did China and India reach a trade agreement?
1954
When were Indians across the border of Tibet and India attacked by Chinese forces?
1962
When did the Vietnam War end?
1975
In what year did Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia?
1978
In what year did Chinese troops invade Vietnam?
1979
In what year did the USA’s 7th fleet move between mainland China and Taiwan to protect the KMT?
1950
In which years did China bomb Taiwanese offshore islands?
1954-1955 and 1958
What year did a state of what stop between the PRC and ROC?
1979
When did the Vietnam War begin?
1965
What year did Deng die in?
1978
When did protests in a Tiananmen Square begin?
Early 1989
When did King Shah rule from and to?
1936 to 1973
When was Daoud prime minister from and to?
1954 to 1963
What year did the PDPA split?
1967
When did Daoud’s military coup occur?
17 July 1973
When was Daoud overthrown?
27 April 1978
When did Amin take over from Taraki?
September 1979
When did Karmal take power?
December 1979
When did Reagan begin the Strategic Defence Initiative?
1981
What year did Gorbachev become the USSR’s General Secretary?
1985
In what year was Perestroika implemented?
1985
In what year was Glasnost implemented?
1986
In what year could other political parties be formed in the USSR?
1988
In what year did the free elections for the Congress of People’s Deputies occur?
1989
In what year was Charter 77 formed?
1977
In what year did Karol Wojtyla become Pope John Paul II?
1978
In what year did the strike in Lenin Shipyard occur?
1980
In what year did Jaruzelski become head of the Polish government?
1981
In what year was Prague Spring?
1968
In what year did the USSR invade Hungary?
1956
In what year was Walesa released from prison?
1982
In what year did Walesa win the nobel peace prize?
1983
When did the Polish Round Table Talks begin?
February 1989
When were partially free elections held in Poland?
June 1989
When did Ceausescu’s Securitate turn against him?
November 1989
On what day was Ceausescu executed with his wife?
Christmas day of 1989
When did Hungary open borders with Austria?
May 1989
When did peaceful protests in the GDR begin to occur?
September 1989
When did Honecker resign from his party?
October 1989
When did the Berlin Wall fall?
9 November 1989
When were free elections held in the GDR?
March 1990
When was Germany reunified?
3 October 1990
In what year was Yeltsin elected president of Russia?
1991
When did the KGB try to force Gorbachev to resign?
August 1991
When did Russia and 11 other republics declare that they were no longer a part of the USSR?
21 December 1991
In what year did the US congress pass a law that banned all American investments in South Africa?
1986
From when to when did the USSR train MK fighters?
1963 to 1991
When did De Klerk announce to parliament that Mandela would be freed?
2 February 1990
When was Mandela freed?
11 February 1990
During which time period did the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale occur?
From November 1987 to March 1988
When were the New York Accords signed?
December 1988
In which year did Namibia become independent?
1990
When did Joe Slovo write the article “Has Socialism failed?
January 1990
When did the Sebokeng massacre occur?
12 January 1991
When was the Groote Schuur Minute produced?
May 1990
When were some of the leaders of Operation Vula arrested?
July 1990
When was the Pretoria Minute produced?
August 1990
When was the Goldstone Commission set up?
Mid 1991
When did CODESA 1 occur?
December 1991
When was the whites only referendum held?
March 1992
When did the Boipatong Massacre occur?
17 June 1992
When did the Bisho massacre occur?
7 September 1992
When was the Record of Understanding signed?
September 1992
When was the Multi-Party Negotiating Council assembled?
March 1993
When was Hani assassinated?
10 April 1993
When was the Volksfront formed?
May 1993
When did the AWB terrorise people at the World Trade Centre?
25 June 1993
When did the St James massacre occur?
25 July 1993
When did the Heidelberg Tavern massacre occur?
30 December 1993
When did the Negotiating Council reach a final agreement?
18 November 1993
When did the Shell House Massacre occur?
28 March 1994
When was the Constitutional Settlement reached?
18 November 1993
In what year was the final constitution draw up?
1996
When were Mandela and De Klerk awarded the Nobel Place Prize?
October 1993
When was Mandela elected president of South Africa?
10 May 1994
In which report did the TRC ask the government for money?
October 1998’s report
When did De Klerk apologise to the TRC?
May 1997
When was it found that De Klerk knew about the August 1988 Khotso House bombing?
28 October 1988
In which time period was KZN the worst area in SA for political violence?
1985 to 1994
In which year did the SADF train an Inkatha paramilitary force in the Caprivi Strip?
1986
In which year did Buthelezi comment on the TRC’s favouritism?
1997
In which year was Seremane executed?
1981
In which year was Seremane recruited and trained in?
1976
In which year did the SADF attack ANC camps?
1979
When did the ANC send a memorandum asking for Gqozo to be replaced?
3 September 1992
When was the National Peace Accord signed?
14 September 1991
