Cold War Dates Flashcards
When was the end of the Second World War
August 14th 1945 with the surrender of the Japanese
When was the Yalta conference?
February 1945
When was the Potsdam Conference?
July 1945
When was Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech?
March 1946
When did the Truman Doctrine become policy?
March 1947 with Truman declaring an active role in Greek Civil War
When was the Marshall Plan announced?
June 1947
When was Truman’s Loyalty Program announced?
March 1948
When was the Brussel Pact created?
March 17 to protect Europe from communism
When did the Berlin Blockade begin?
June 1948
When was NATO created?
April 1949
When did the Berlin Blockade end?
May 1949
When did Russia get the A-Bomb?
August 1949
When was the Communist takeover of China?
October 1949
When did Truman approve Hydrogen bomb development?
January 1950
When did Joe McCarthy begin his Communist witch hunt?
February 1950
When did the Korean War begin?
June 1950
When did the British develop the A-Bomb
October 1952
When did the CIA overthrow the Iranian Government?
1953
When did the CIA overthrow the Guatemala?
1953
When was the Warsaw Pact formed?
May 1955
When was the Hungarian Revolution?
October to November 1956
When was the Suez Crisis?
October-November 1956
When was Sputnik launched into space?
October 1957
When did Castro take over Cuba?
January 1959
When was the Kitchen Debate?
September 1959
When was JFK elected?
November 1960
When did Cuba openly align itself with the Soviet Union?
December 1960
When was the Bay of Pigs invasion?
April 1961
When did the construction of the Berlin Wall begin?
August 1961
When was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
October 1962
When was the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified?
July 1963
When was JFK assassinated?
November 1963
When was the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
August 1964
When did China develop the A-bomb?
October 1964
When did the U.S. begin fighting in the Dominican Republic against Communism?
April 1965
When did U.S. involvement in Vietnam escalate?
July 1965
When did Robert McNamara admit that US bombing raids in Vietnam had failed in their objectives?
1967
When was Nixon elected?
1968
When did the Soviet’s invade Czechoslovakia?
August 1968
When did Apollo 11 land on the Moon?
July 1969
When were the Pentagon Papers published?
1971
When does Nixon visit China?
February 1972
When was SALT I signed?
July 1972
When was a ceasefire agreed between the U.S. and North Vietnam?
January 1973
When did the U.S. supported coup overthrow the Chilean government and install Pinochet as dictator?
September 1973
When did Nixon resign?
August 1974
When does South Vietnam fall?
April 1975
When is the communist takeover of Angola?
February 1976
When did the U.S. and China establish diplomatic relations?
January 1979
When was SALT II signed?
July 1979
When was the Iranian Revolution?
November 1979
When did Soviet forces invade Afghanistan?
December 1979
When was the Polish shipyard workers strike Solidarity Union formed and Lech Walesa elected leader?
August 1980
In what year was Reagan elected?
1981 and 1985
When do U.S. troops invade Grenada?
October 1983
When does Mikhail Gorbachev become leader of the Soviet Union?
March 1985
When was the Reykjavik summit?
October 1986
When did Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all medium and short range nuclear missiles?
October 1987
When did the Soviet’s withdraw from Afghanistan?
January 1989
When does Poland become independent?
June 1989
When does Hungary become independent?
September 1989
When was the Berlin Wall demolished?
November 1989
When did the communist governments of Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania fall?
December 1989
When was Boris Yeltsin elected President of Russia?
May 1990
When was Germany reunited?
October 1990
When was the death of Stalin
March 1953
When was Khrushchev removed and replaced with Brezhnev?
October 1964
When was the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project?
July 1975
When did the U.S. boycott the Moscow Olympics?
July 1980
When was the Tito-Stalin split?
1948
When did the Sino-Soviet split occur?
1961
When did Brezhnev became General Secretary?
October 1964
When did the shooting down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 take place?
September 1983
When did Able Archer take place?
November 1983
When does the Revisionist school develop?
1960s
When was the Soviet occupation of Iran
1946
When was the Cominform formed?
October 1947
When was the Czech coup?
February 1948
When was West Germany established?
September 1949
When was East Germany established?
October 1949
What was Thomas A. baileys book called and what did it argue?
America faces Russia 1950: argued that the breakdown of postwar peace was the result of Soviet expansionism in the immediate years following ww2
When was Klaus Fuchs convicted and what for?
1950, for passing on secrets from the Manhattan project to the Soviets
When were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted and what for?
1951, for being involved in the spy ring that conveyed Klaus Fuchs atomic secrets to the Soviets
When did Mao declare that he was unafraid of Nuclear war?
1957
In what year did JFK use the missile gap to his advantage?
1960
When was JFK and Khrushchev’s Vienna summit?
1961
When did the U.S. place Pershing II missiles in western Germany?
1983
When did Reagan make his Star Wars speech?
March 1983
When did Gorbachev announce a moratorium on nuclear testing?
August 1985
When did Gorbachev and Reagan sign the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF)?
December 1987
When was START signed?
July 1991
