Cold War Key Dates Flashcards
Tehran Conference
November 1943
Yalta Conference
4th February 1945
Potsdam Conference
17th July to 2nd August 1945
End of WW2
8th May 1945
Dropping of the Atomic bomb
6th August 1945
Stalin installing pro-soviet ‘puppet’ governments
1945-1948
Iron Curtain speech
5th March 1946
Truman Doctrine
March 1947
Marshall Plan
June 1947
Cominform
September 1947
Comecon
January 1949
Yugoslavia expelled from Cominform
June 1948
Berlin Blockade
24th June 1948- 12th May 1949
Berlin Airlift
26th June 1948- 12th May 1949
Formation of NATO
4th April 1949
Mao Tse-Tung establishes People’s Republic of China
1st October 1949
China becoming Communist
1949
Treaty of Friendship
February 1950
NSC-68
April 1950
Korean War
1950-1953
Vietnam War
1954-1975
Arms Race
1945-1963
Space Race
1957-1969
Stalin dies
5th March 1953
Destalinisation speech
1956
Peaceful co-existence
1955 (Geneva)
Formation of the Warsaw Pact
May 1955
Hungarian Uprising
November 1956
U2 Crisis
1st May 1960
Paris Peace Summit
14th May 1960
The ‘Brain Drain’
1949-1961
The Vienna Summit
3rd June 1961
Berlin Wall
13th August 1961- 1989
Checkpoint Charlie
27th October 1961
Kennedy’s ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ speech
June 1963
Cuban Revolution
1959
Bay of Pigs
17th April 1961
Cuban Missile Crisis
22nd- 28th October 1962
Limited Test Ban Theory
1963
Outer Space Treaty
1967
Prague Spring
August 1968
Brezhnev Doctrine
August 1968
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
1970
SALT 1
May 1972
How much money did the USA give to Turkey and Greece in the Truman Doctrine?
$400 million
How much money did USA give in the Marshall Plan?
$17 billion
What currency was West Germany after united?
Deutsche Mark
What did US and UK call their unified zones in 1947?
Bizonia
How long did the Berlin Airlift last?
318 days/ 11 months
How many tonnes were being supplied a day into West Berlin in 1949?
8000
How many tonnes were supplied to West Berlin during the Airlift and by how many planes?
1.5 million transported by 275,000 planes
How quickly were planes landing in Templehof airport?
Every 3 minutes
What were West and East Germany called after being divided in 1949?
WG- Federal Republic of Germany
EG- German Democratic Republic
What does Mao Tse-Tung call China?
People’s Republic of China
What was China’s population in 1949?
500 million
How much money did Soviets loan to China in 1950?
$300 million
How much of the money the Soviets gave China needed to be repaid?
95%
How many Soviet experts were sent to help the development of China?
20,000
When was Korea liberated from Japanese occupation?
1945
Who led the UN forces in the Korean War?
General Douglas MacArthur
What was the name of the French colony Vietnam was part of?
Indochina
When did the Viet Minh start fighting the French?
1940s
When did the Viet Minh defeat the French?
May 1954
When did Ngo Dinh Diem become leader of South Vietnam?
1955
What group of Vietnamese peasants fought Ngo Dinh Diem?
Vietcong
When did Ho Chi Minh declare war on South Vietnam?
1959
When did Ngo Dinh Diem set up the Strategic Hamlets policy?
1962
When was Ngo Dinh Diem assassinated?
1963
When did USA send their first US combat troops to Vietnam?
1965
How many US troops were fighting in Vietnam by 1968?
500,000
When did US withdraw from Vietnam?
1973
USSR’s first atomic bomb
1949
USA’s first hydrogen bomb (Ivy Mike)
1952
USSR’s first hydrogen bomb
1953
USSR’s first ICBMs
1957
USA’s first ICBMs
1958
USA’s submarine Polaris missiles
1960
USA’s first Tsar bomb
1961
USSR’s Sputnik
October 1957
USSR’s Laika the dog
November 1957
USA’s satellite Explorer 1
January 1958
NASA
July 1958
USSR’s first human in space Yuri Gagarin
April 1961
USA’s first space flight by Alan Shepherd
May 1961
USSR’s first woman in space Valentina Tereshkova
June 1963
USA’s first men on the moon Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
July 1969
List leaders of Hungary in order
1) Matyas Rakosi
2) Erno Gero
3) Imre Nagy
4) Janos Kadar
Erno Gero replaces Matyas Rakosi in Hunary
July 1956
First mass protest under Gero’s leadership in Hungary
October 1956
Which US pilot was shot down in the U2 crisis?
Gary Powers
Khrushchev’s ‘Berlin Ultimatum’ speech to West
1958
What was the movement of educated/skilled people called?
The Brain Drain
How many people moved from East to West Germany by 1961?
At least 3 million (20%)
By 1961, how many were moving from East to West a day?
2000
How long did Checkpoint Charlie last?
18 hours
How many were killed trying to move from East to West during the Berlin Wall?
86
How many people in West Germany listened to Kennedy’s ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ speech?
120,000
Since what year had Cuba been ruled by Batista and working with the US?
1952
When did Castro begin a guerrilla war in Cuba
1956
When did the US sever all relations with Cuba
January 1961
How much did US spend on Bay of Pigs?
$5 million
How many were killed and captured during the Bay of Pigs?
200 killed/ 1200 captured
When did Castro publicly announce Cuba as communist?
December 1961
When did Khrushchev announce USSR would dismantle Cuban missiles?
28th October 1962
When did Dubcek announce his reforms?
April 1968
What did Dubcek call his new version of communism?
Socialism with a human face
How many soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia?
500,000
Who replaced Dubcek as leader of Czechoslovakia?
Gustav Husak
