Cold War Dates Flashcards
When was the Yalta Summit?
Feb 1945
When was the Iron Curtain Speech?
March 1946
When was the Long Telegram?
Feb 1946
When was the Novikov Telegram?
Sept 1946
When was Bizonia Created?
Jan 1947
When was the Truman Doctrine released?
March 1947
When was COMINFORM created?
Sept 1947
When did Czechoslovakia become communist?
Feb 1948
When was the Marshall Plan released?
April 1948
What were the dates of the beginning and end of the Berlin Blockade?
24 Jun1948 - 12 May1949
When was Tito expelled from COMINFORM?
Jun 1948
When was COMECON formed?
Jan 1949
When was NATO formed?
April 1949
When was PRC declared?
Oct 1949
When did USSR get A bomb?
Aug 1949
When was GDR formed?
Oct 1949
When was the Sino soviet mutual defence treaty?
Feb 1950
When was NSC/68 released?
April 1950
What were the Korean War start and end dates?
25 Jun 1950 - 27 Jul 1953
When was the Potsdam Conference?
Jul-Aug 1945
When were the Rosenberg couple convicted of espionage?
March 1951
When did McCarthyism take off?
Feb 1950
When was General MacArthur fired?
April 1951
When was the San Francisco Treaty?
April 1952
When was Eisenhower Inaugurated into presidency?
Jan 1953
When did Stalin die?
March 1953
When did the Cuban Revolution being?
July 1953
When did Khrushchev become the leader of the USSR?
elected in Sept 1953
When was Polaris created?
Jan 1954
When was McCarthy disgraced for accusing the millitary?
Apr-Jun 1954
When was the Taiwan Strait Crisis?
Aug 1954
When was SEATO created?
Sept 1954
When did FRG join NATO?
May 1955
When did the Warsaw Pact get created?
May 1955
When was the Geneva Summit?
July 1955
When did the Vietnam War begin?
Nov 1955
When was Khrushchev’s secret speech?
Feb 1956
When was the Hungarian Crisis?
23 Oct 1956
When was the Suez Crisis?
Oct 1953
When was Eisenhower re-elected?
Nov 1956
When was Sputnik 1 Launched into space?
Oct 1957
When was the Berlin Ultimatum issued?
Nov 1958
When was Explorer 1 launched into space?
Jan 1958
When did Castro win the Cuban Revolution?
Jan 1959
When was the Camp David Summit?
Sept 1959
When was Gary Powers shot down in the U2 plane?
May 1960
When was the Sino-Soviet Split?
June 1960
When was the Congo Crisis
July 1959
When was Patrice Lumumba Killed?
Jan 1961
When did Kennedy become President?
Jan 1961
When did Yuri Gagarin get to space?
April 1961
When was the Bay of Pigs dates?
17-19 April 1961
When was the Vienna Summit?
Jun 1961
When was the Berlin Wall begin construction?
12-13 Aug 1961
When was the Checkpoint Charlie Standoff?
Oct 1961
When was Tsar Bomba created?
Oct 1961
When was Castro declared as a Leninist?
Dec 1961
What were the key dates of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
14 oct 1962, U2 pics
Started 16 Oct 1962
Ended 29 Oct 1962
When was the Partial Test Ban Treaty made?
Aug 1963
When was Diem assassinated?
Nov 1963
When was JFK shot and LBJ Inaugurated President?
Nov 1963
When was the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
Aug 1964
When was the Geneva Conference?
April 1954
