Cold War - Dates & Abbreviations Flashcards by Akua Reeves

Q

Cold War

(duration) of your course

A

1945-1972

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Yalta Conference

A

January 1945

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Potsdam Conference

A

July / August 1945

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Truman Doctrine

A

1947

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Marshall Plan

A

1948

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Cominform

A

1947 - Communist Information Bureau

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Comecon

A

1949 - Council for Mutual Economic Aid

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Berlin Blockade / Airlift

A

(June) 1948

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Stalin calls off Berlin Blockade

A

(May) 1949

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NATO

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(April) 1949 - North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

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Warsaw Pact

A

1955

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China becomes Communist

A

1949

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Stalin dies

A

1953

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Khrushchev becomes USSR ruler

A

1955

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Khrushchev’s Secret Speech

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1956

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Hungarian Uprising

A

(October) 1956

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U2 Spy Plane Incident

A

(May) 1960

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Berlin Crisis

A

1961

Q

Prague Spring

Czechoslavakia

A

1968

Q

Bay Of Pigs

A

(April) 1961

Q

Cuban Missile Crisis

A

1962

Q

S.A.L.T 1

A

1972 - Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

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Korean War

duration

A

1950 - 1953

Q

Sputnik

A

1957

Q

ICBM

no year

A

Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

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MAD

no year

A

Mutually Assured Destruction

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Apollo

A

1969

Q

Polaris Submarines

A

1959

Q

USSR sends the first man into space (Yuri Gagarin)

A

1961

Q

Vietnam War

duration

A

1955-1975