COLD WAR DATES Flashcards
Bolshevik Revolution 1
February 1917
Bolshevik Revolution 2
November 1917
Tehran Conference
November 1943
Yalta Conference
February 1945
Roosevelt dies and Truman becomes President
April 1945
Germany surrenders: Victory in Europe
May 1945
United Nations formed
June 1945
Potsdam Conference
July 1945
Japan surrenders: Victory in the Pacific
August 1945
Stalin’s Two Camps speech
February 1946
Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech
March 1946
Baruch Plan proposed
June 1946
Truman Doctrine
March 1947
Marshall Plan proposed
June 1947
Kennan’s ‘Mr. X.’ article
July 1947
Cominform created
October 1947
Czech coup: Marshall Plan implemented
February 1948
State of Israel created
May 1948
Berlin Blockade
June 1948
Yugoslavia expelled from Cominform
June 1948
Truman re-elected
November 1948
COMECON founded
January 1949
NATO established
April 1949
Berlin Blockade ends
May 1949
USSR explodes atomic bomb
September 1949
Federal Republic of Germany established
September 1949
German Democratic Republic established
October 1949
Mao’s Chinese Communist Party takes power and the People’s Republic of China is established
October 1949
NSC-68
April 1950
North Korea invades South Korea
June 1950
USA and Japan sign mutual security pact
September 1951
Eisenhower elected
November 1952
Stalin dies
March 1953
East German uprising
June 1953
Armistice in Korea
July 1953
Dulles announces ‘massive retaliation policy’
January 1954
Fall of Dien Bien Phu
May 1954
Geneva Conferenc on Vietnam
July 1954
SEATO established
September 1954
West Germany joins NATO
October 1954
Warsaw Pact signed
May 1955
Geneva Summit
July 1955
Nasser announces arms deal with USSR
September 1955
Baghdad Pact
November 1955
Khrushchev’s ‘de-Stalinization’ speech/’peaceful co-existence’ promoted
February 1956
Suez Crisis
July 1956
Hungarian Uprising suppressed
October 1956
Sputnik launched by USSR
October 1957
Revolution in Iraq
July 1958
Quemoy and Matsu blockaded
August 1958
Castro takes power in Cuba
January 1959
Dulles dies
May 1959
Khrushchev visits USA
September 1959
U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR
May 1960
Kennedy elected
November 1960
Sino-Soviet split confirmed
November 1960
USA breaks off relations with Cuba
January 1961
Bay of Pigs
April 1961
Berlin Wall built
August 1961
Cuban Missile Crisis
October 1962
Partial Test-ban Treaty signed in Moscow between the USA, USSR and UK
August 1963
Kennedy assassinated and Johnson becomes president
November 1963
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution/USA goes to war in Vietnam
August 1964
Khrushchev deposed and replaced by Brezhnev
October 1964
China detonates A-bomb
October 1964
Johnson re-elected
November 1964
Fighting between India and Pakistan over Kashmir
August 1965
NATO headquarters moved to Brussels after France withdraw
September 1966
Six Day War between Israel and Arab states
June 1967
Association of South-East Asian States (ASEAN) established
August 1967
Brezhnev Doctrine
July 1968
Warsaw Pact invades Czechoslovakia
August 1968
Nixon elected
November 1968
Nuclear non-proliferation Treaty
November 1969
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) talks begin
April 1970
UN admits China, expelling Taiwan
October 1971
Nixon visits China
February 1972
Nixon visits USSR
May 1972
SALT 1 signed
May 1972
Nixon re-elected
November 1972
Fourth Arab-Israeli War
October 1973
Nixon resigns over Watergate
August 1974
Communist victory in Vietnam and Cambodia
April 1975
Helsinki Final Act signed
August 1975
SEATO disbands
February 1976
Mao dies
September 1976
Carter elected
November 1976
USA plans to deploy cruise missiles
June 1977
USSR deploys SS-20s in Europe
December 1977
UN special session on disarmament
May 1978
USA and China open diplomatic relations
January 1979
Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT 2
June 1979
US hostage crisis in Tehran
November 1979
Soviet forces invade Afghanistan
December 1979
Tito dies
May 1980
Mass strikes in Poland
August 1980
Iraq attacks Iran
September 1980
Reagan elected
November 1980
US hostages released in Iran
January 1981
Argentina seizes Falkland Islands
April 1981
Brezhnev dies, replaced by Andropov
November 1981
Reagon promotes SDI
March 1983
US troops invade Grenada
October 1983
Soviets walk out of START talks
December 1983
Andropov dies, replaces by Cherenko
February 1984
Reagan re-elected
November 1984
Cherenko dies, replaced by Gorbachev
March 1985
USSR criticise SDI at UN
September 1985
Reagan and Gorbachev summit
November 1985
Chernobyl disaster
April 1986
Summit in Washington, Reagan and Gorbachev
December 1987
Gorbachev announces withdrawal from Afghanistan
February 1988
Summit in Moscow, Reagan and Gorbachev sign INF treaty
May 1988
Bush elected
November 1988
Soviet troops withdraw from Hungary
April 1989
Tiananmen Square massacre
June 1989
Hungary opens border with Austria
September 1989
Honecker forced to resign in East Germany
October 1989
Berlin Wall comes down
November 1989
Czech Communist Party resigns
November 1989
East German, Lithuanian and Latvian parliaments abolish special position of Communist Party
December 1989
Lithuanian parliament declares independence
December 1989
Ceausescu executed in Romania
December 1989
Havel new Czech president
December 1989
Bulgarian parliament abolishes special position of Communist Party
January 1990
Lithuanian parliament declares independence
March 1990
Estonian parliament votes for secession from USSR
March 1990
Latvian parliament declares independence
May 1990
Bush/Gorbachev summit in Washington
June 1990
NATO declares formal end of Cold War
July 1990
Iraq invades Kuwait
August 1990
German Unification
October 1990
Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize
October 1990
Signing of CFE Treaty and Paris Charter
November 1990
Warsaw Pact disbands
February 1991
UN forces expel Iraq from Kuwait
February 1991
Georgia declares independence from USSR
April 1991
Yeltsin becomes president of Russia
June 1991
Failed coup against Gorbachev, Yeltsin condemns hardliners
August 1991
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus declare independence
August 1991
11,000 Soviet personnel are withdrawn from Cuba
September 1991
Ukraine votes for independence
December 1991
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus declare USSR no longer exists
December 1991
Gorbachev resigns
December 1991
