Cold War Key Dates Flashcards
1
Q
Yalta
A
Feb 1945
2
Q
Potsdam
A
July 1945
3
Q
Kennan’s ‘Long Telegram’
A
Feb 1946
4
Q
Iron Curtain speech
A
March 1946
5
Q
Truman Doctrine
A
March 1947
6
Q
Marshall Plan
A
June 1947
7
Q
Berlin Blockade
A
June 1948-May 1949
8
Q
NATO
A
April 1948
9
Q
NK invades SK
A
June 1950
10
Q
Stalin death
A
March 1953
11
Q
Warsaw Pact
A
May 1955
12
Q
Polish Rising
Hungarian Rising
A
June-Oct 1956
Oct-Nov
13
Q
Castro in power
A
Jan 1959
14
Q
U2 spy plane
A
May 1960
15
Q
Bay of Pigs
A
April 1961
16
Q
Berlin Wall
A
1961
17
Q
Cuban Missile Crisis
A
Oct 1962
18
Q
Moscow Test Ban Treaty
A
Aug 1963
19
Q
Tet Offensive
A
Jan-Feb 1968
20
Q
SALT 1
A
May 1972
21
Q
Paris Peace Agreement
A
Jan 1973
22
Q
US troops withdraw from Vietnam
A
March 1973
23
Q
Cominform
A
Sep 1947
24
Q
Comecon
A
Jan 1949
25
Bizonia
Jan 1947
26
New Currency in Western Germany
Feb 1948
27
SEATO
Sep 1954
28
Geneva Conference
July 1954
29
Start of Vietnam War
1955
30
The Khmer Rouge
1975
31
Moscow hot line
June 1963
32
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
July 1968
33
SDI
1983
34
Glasnot, Perastroika
1986
35
Martial law in Poland
1981
36
Berlin wall ends
1989
37
Brezchnev
1964
38
Soviets invade afghanistan
1979
