Cold War- dates Flashcards
Yalta
Feb 1945
Potsdam
August 1945
Atomic bomb- Hiroshima
August 1945
Atomic bomb- Nagasaki
August 1945
Poland exiled non-communist leader
1947
Czechoslovakia banned non-communist parties
1948
Truman Doctrine
March 1947
Cominform
October 1947
Long telegram
1946
Iron Curtain speech
1946
Marshall Plan
1948
NATO formed
1949
Mao’s wins Chinese civil war
1949
Treaty of Friendship
1950
NSC-68
1950
USSR boycott UN
1949
Korean War
1950- 1953
French pull out Vietnam
1954
Troops in Vietnam
1965- 1973
First satellite in Space
1957
Treaty of Brussels
1948
Comecon
1949
Warsaw Pact
1955
Berlin Blockade/ Airlift
June 1948- May 1949
Apollo- Soyuz Missin
1975
Hungarian Uprising
1956
U2 Crisis
1960
Supposed-to-be year of Paris Peace Summit
1960
Berlin Wall built
1961
Castro’s failed uprising
1953
Start of Cuban revolution
1956
Castro and his revolutionaries defeat Batista
1959
Bay of pigs
April 1961
U2 plane sees nuclear sites in Cuba
14th October 1962
Soviet ships boarded at Cuba quarantine
25th October- 1962
Kruschev sent letter and removes missles from Cuba
28th Ocotber- 1962
Troops in Vietnam (year to year)
1965- 1975