Dates Flashcards
Gomulka replaced by Beirut
1948
Rajk (Hungary) executed
1949
Beneš (Czechoslovakia) resigns
1948
Yugoslavia expelled from Cominform
1948
‘Long Telegram’
22nd February 1946
Iron Curtain Speech
6 March 1946
Britain announce aid to Greek monarchists no longer available
February 1947
Truman Doctrine
1947
Cominform established
September 1947
Marshall Plan begins
1947
Soviet Union walk out of the Paris Peace Conference
July 1947
Bizonia formed
January 1947
NATO formed
May 1949
Berlin Blockade
June 1948 - May 1949
German Democratic Republic formed
October 1949
Moscow Conference
March-April 1947
London Conference
November-December 1947
New East German state formed
October 1949
Potsdam
1945
Sino-Soviet alliance formed
1950
Eisenhower becomes US President
November 1952
NSC 162/2
October 1953
‘Massive Retaliation’ strategy announced
January 1954
Geneva Conference
July 1954
West Germany admitted to NATO
May 1955
Yalta Conference
February 1945
Hitler commits suicide
April 1945
Roosevelt dies
April 1945
Churchill defeated in General Election
July 1945
Potsdam
July/August 1945
Percentages Agreement
1944
WW2 ends
September 1945
OPLAN 34A
January 1964
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
August 2nd 1964
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution agreed
August 7th 1964
Operation Rolling Thunder
1965-1968
NV Four-Point Proposal
1965
Operation Ranch Hand approved by Kennedy
1962
Tet Offensive
Jan-Feb 1968
Nixon becomes President
January 1969
Operation Lam Son 719
1971
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
26 May 1972
The Interim Agreement on the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms
26 May 1972
USSR tests its first nuclear weapon
Aug 1949
Strategic Perimeter suggested
Jan 1950
China forms military alliance with USSR
Feb 1950
NSC-68 presented
April 1950
China enters Korean War on North Korea’s side
Nov 1950
San Francisco Peace Treaty
Sept 1951
Eisenhower becomes US President
Jan 1953
US-Japan Security Treaty
1951
National Safe Agency established
August 1952
Truman dismissed MacArthur
April 1951
Peace negotiations in Korea begin
June 1951
Stalin dies
March 1953
Panmunjom Armistice Agreement (Korea)
July 1953
USSR develops the first ICBM
May 1957
Sputnik is launched
October 1957
Gaither Report is commissioned
November 1957
USSR’s released Berlin Ultimatum
November 1958
US U-2 spy plane shot down over Soviet territory
May 1960
Gagarin is the first man into outer space
April 1961
Construction of the Berlin Wall begins
August 1961
Kennedy makes ‘Ice bin ein Berliner’ speech
June 1963
The Bermuda Conference
1957
Laika launched into 10-day orbit
Nov 1957
‘Flopnik’
December 1957
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) established
1958
Khrushchev becomes USSR prime minister
1958
Macmillan (British Prime Minister) visits Moscow
Feb 1959
Khrushchev visits Camp David
September 1959
Batista regime overthrown by Castro
Jan 1959
Soviet Politburo members offers economic and military aid to Cuba
Feb 1960
Bay of Pigs invasion
April 1961
Kennedy authorises Operation Mongoose
Nov 1961
Khrushchev deploys nuclear missiles on Cuba
May 1962
American U-2 spy planes discover Soviet missile sites on Cuba
Oct 1962
Khrushchev withdraws missiles from Cuba
29 Oct 1962
Moscow Test Ban Treaty Agreed
August 1963
ExComm established
16 Oct 1962
‘Hot line’ established
June 1963
Kennedy assassinated
Nov 1963
Khrushchev removed from office
Oct 1964
Non-Proliferation Treaty
July 1968
US-Soviet arms limitations discussions begin
1969
SALT I signed
1972
Brezhnev dies
November 1982
Chernobyl disaster and Sakharov released
1986
Glasnost announced by Gorbachev
1988
USA boycott Moscow Olympics
1980
Strategic Defence Initiative
1983
European Commission
June 1988
Geneva Summit
November 1985
Reykjavik Summit
October 1986
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty signed
December 1987
Washington Summit
December 1987
Gorbachev announces that Soviet troops will withdraw from Afghanistan
February 1988
Moscow Summit
May-June 1988
Kadar resigns as Secretary-general
1988
Hungary gov remove fence on border with East Germany
2 May 1989
Federal Republic of Germany created
3 October 1990
Brezhnev Doctrine abandoned
1985
Bush becomes President of USA
November 1988
Malta Summit
Dec 1989
Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty
Nov 1990
Moscow Summit (final summit of Cold War)
July 1991
Soviet Union formally dissolved
December 1991
Reunification of Germany
October 1990
Lithuania declares its independence
Feb 1990
Estonia declares its independence
March 1990
Latvia declares its independence
May 1990
Coup to overthrow Gorbachev
August 1991
Gorbachev resigns
24 August 1991
Commonwealth of the Independent States established
December 1991
USSR Supreme Soviet vote to dissolve itself
26 December 1991
Civil War in Angola begins
Spring 1975
Sino-Soviet split
1961
Allende wins elections in Chile
September 1970
Allende overthrown in military coup
September 1973
US invasion of Grenada
Oct 1983
Sandinista National Liberation Font seize power from Somoza in Nicaragua
June 1979
The Contras founded in Nicaragua
March 1981
Austrian State Treaty
May 1955
Federal Republic of Germany admitted to NATO
May 1955
Geneva Summit
July 1955
Khrushchev’s Secret Police
Feb 1956
Polish Rising
June-Oct 1956
Hungarian Rising
Oct-Nov 1956
Camp David Talks
Sep 1959
Paris Summit
May 1960