Dates Flashcards
Potsdam declaration
1945
United Nations declaration
January 1 1942
United Nations charter
june 26 1945
North Atlantic treaty
april 4 1949
Bizonia germany US + Britain
1946
Kennan long telegram
1946
Churchill’s speech fulton
1946
“iron curtain”
truman doctrine
1947
replace Brit in greece and extend help to turkey (domino theory)
marshall plan
1947
conference of communist party leaders > Poland (stalin)
1947
Cominform
1947 (end in 1956)
India and Pakistan
1947
Britain handed over power to two new states > left behind war of independence
UN resolution Palestine
1947
two states > unite Palestinian state
proclamation state of Israel
1948
Czechoslovakia > under soviet
1948
Berlin blockade
1948-49
treaty of brussels
1948
tito’s Yugoslavia excommunication
1948
NATO
december 1950
communism wins in China
june 25 1950
Korean war + armistice
june 25 1950
armistice: 1953
coal and steel community
1950s
european defense community
may 1952
1953
- election Eisenhower
- dies Stalin
Wgermany member of NATO
1954
Warsaw pact
may 1955
bandung conference
1955
hallstein doctrine
1955
Wgerm refused to recognize Egerm and would break diplomatic relations with governments who did
economic European community
march 1957
non-aligned movement
1956
Tito, Nasser, Nehru
Hungary rising
1956
suez crisis
1956
Eisenhower doctrine
1957
= provide military and economic support to middle easter countries threatened by communism
Castro in cuba
1950s
sino-soviet treaty of friendship, alliance, and mutual assistance
1950
great leap forward
1958
Castro ally of soviet
1960
bay of pigs
1961
built Berlin wall
1961
Cuban missiles crisis
1962
treaty of elysée
1963
Adenauer + de Gaulle
no more sino-soviet alliance
1963
us in vietnam + force intervention
1955
1964-1967 > intervention on large scale
nucleare test-ban treaty
1963
six-day war
1967
UN resolution 242 six-day war
1967
Prague spring
1968
announcement start SALT
1969
Brandt Ostpolitik
1969
floating of dollar
1971
US recognition of PCR
1971
four-power agreement on berlin
1971
Nixon to Moscow - 1st summit
1972
SALT 1: limitation os ABs and MIRVs
Watergate scandal
1972
treaty concerning the basis of relations between the 2 germanies
1972
Brezhnev to US - 2nd summit
1973
agreements on preventing nuclear war (taking control of world affairs)
Yom Kippur war
1973
triple crisis (war, superpower, oil)
‘oil shock’
1973
agreement to end war in vietnam
1973
Nixon to Soviet Union - 3rd summit
1974
limitation of underground nuclear tests
Ford to Vladivostok
1974
attempt to prolong déténte = useless
helsinki accords
1975
3 baskets
Brezhnev + Carter in Vienna
1979
SALT 2 > never ratified
Soviet in Afghanistan
december 1979
European Union
1980
US SDI
1983
reagan doctrine
1985
reverse advancements made by countries backed up by soviet in Angola, Ethiopia, Nicaragua and Afghanistan
Geneva summit Gorbachev + Reagan
1985
Reykjavik summit Gorbachev + Reagan
1986
Washington summit Gorbachev + Reagan
1987
washington treaty > destroy land-based missiles in eu and Asia
Moscow summit Gorbachev + Reagan
1988
formal exchange of ratifications
Malta Bush + Gorbachev
december 1989
pro-democracy movement china
1989
solidarity won Poland
1989
Berlin Wall down
1989
Gorbachev repeal article 6
1990
first gulf war
1990 (1991)
iraq invades kuwait
German unification
october 3 1990
end of comecom
1991
end of Warsaw pact
1991
referendum to keep Soviet Union
1991
end of soviet union
december 8 1991
