Dates Flashcards
Yalta Conference
4-11 Feb 1945
Potsdam Conference
17 July - 1 August 1945
Kennan’s Long Telegram
22 Feb 1946
Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech
5 March 1946
Bizonia Creation
1 Jan 1947
Truman Doctrine
12 March 1947
Marshall Plan
June 1947
Cominform (Marshall Plan Response)
Sept 1947
Deutsche Mark (Bizonia Currency)
1 June 1948
Berlin Blockade (Start)
June 1948
US creates Capitalist Republic of Korea
Aug 1948
USSR creates Democratic Republic of Korea
Sept 1948
NATO Formed
Apr 1949
Berlin Blockade (End)
May 1949
China turns comm
1949
NSC-68 (National Security Council)
1950
NK offensive
June-Sept 1950
SK counter offensive
Sept-Nov 1950
Eisenhower Election
1952
End of Korean war
1953
Stalins Death
1953
US drops first atomic bomb
6 August 1945
US tests their first hydrogen bomb
1 Nov 1952
USSR test their first Hyrogen bomb
1953
USSR launches Sputnik
October 1957
US launches Flopnik
December 1957
Gaither report
November 1957
West Germany Joins NATO
May 1955
Warsaw Pact
May 1955
Austria State Treaty
May 1955
Geneva Summit
July 1955
Khrushchev’s Secret Speech
Feb 1956
Polish Uprising
June-Oct 1956
Hungary Uprising
Oct-Nov 1956
Khrushchev Visits UK
1956
NASA established
1958
Berlin Crisis
1958
US gov granted $1bn for tech
Sept 1958
Khrushchev Visits US
1959
U2 Spy plane shot down
1 May 1960
Paris Summit
May 1960
Yuri Gagarin - First Man in Space
12 April 1961
Berlin Wall Built
13 Aug 1961
Checkpoint Charlie
27 Nov 1961
Failed Bay of Pigs Invasion
Oct 1961
“Ich bin ein Berliner” Kennedy Speech
June 1963