CW dates Flashcards
1
Q
Yalta
A
4-11th Feb 1945
2
Q
Potsdam
A
17-1st August 1945
3
Q
Kennan’s Long Telegram
A
22nd Feb 1946
4
Q
Truman Doctrine
A
12th March 1947
5
Q
Marshall Plan
A
June 1947
6
Q
Cominform
A
Sept 1947
7
Q
Bizonia
A
1st Jan 1947
8
Q
Deutsche mark
A
20th June 1948
9
Q
Berlin Blockade
A
June-May 1948-9 (11 Months)
10
Q
MacArthur in charge
A
Start of 1949
11
Q
China turns communist
A
1949
12
Q
SanFranciscan Peace Treaty
A
Sept 1951
13
Q
CCP announced allegiance to USSR
A
1949 June
14
Q
NSC-68
A
1950
15
Q
Capitalist Republic of Korea
A
Aug 1948
16
Q
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
A
Sept 1948
17
Q
Korea Offensive
A
June - Sept 1950
18
Q
Korea Counter-offensive/offensive
A
Sept-Nov 1950
19
Q
Stabilization and negotiation
A
Dec-June 1950-1
20
Q
Stalemate and peace
A
June-July 1951-3
21
Q
West Germany admitted to NATO
A
May 1955
22
Q
Warsaw Pact
A
May 1955
23
Q
Khrushchev’s Secret Speech
A
25th Feb 1956
24
Q
Polish uprising
A
June-Oct 1956
25
Hungarian uprising
Oct-Nov 1956
26
Austrian State Treaty
May 1955
27
Geneva Summit
Sept 1955
28
Paris Summit
May 1960
29
US first tested H-bomb
Nov 52
30
Gaither report
Nov 1957
31
Sputnik
4th Oct 1957
32
Flopnik
6th Dec1957
33
NASA established
1958
34
US authorised $1B for tech developments
Sept 1958
35
US U2 spy plane
1st May 1960
36
Yuri Gargarin first man in space
12th April 1961
37
Start of Berlin Wall
13th Aug 1961
38
Checkpoint Charlie confrontation
27th Nov 1961
39
"Ich bin ein Berliner" speech
June 1963
40
Iron Curtain speech
5th March 1946
