Cold war- timeline (1940-1949) Flashcards
1
Q
1947
A
Cold war began
2
Q
1943 November
A
Teheran Conference
3
Q
1945 February
A
Yalta conference
4
Q
July - August 1945
A
Potsdam conference
5
Q
1946 August
A
Atom bomb drops on hiroshima and Nagasaki
6
Q
1946 March
A
Churchill’s ‘iron curtain’ speech
7
Q
1946 June
A
civil war in Greece, policy of containment
8
Q
1947 March
A
Truman doctrine
9
Q
1948 January
A
Britain and the USA join in western Germany
10
Q
1948 June
A
Berlin Blockade
11
Q
1949 April
A
formation of NATO
12
Q
1949 May
A
- end of berlin blockade
13
Q
1955
A
formation of Warsaw pact
14
Q
1953
A
Death of starlin
15
Q
1959
A
Batisa overthrown in Cuban Revolution, Castro in power now
16
Q
1961
A
US cuts off trade with china
Bay of pigs invasion
building or Berlin wall
Khrushchev provides arms to Cuba
17
Q
1962 August
A
US spy plane discovers soviet missle bases in Cuba
18
Q
1962 October
A
Cuban missile crisis
19
Q
1989
A
cold war ends
