DATES Flashcards
French invasion of the Ruhr valley
1923
Berlin Wall built
1961
Japan invaded China
1937
Brezhnev doctrine
1968
Warsaw Pact officially ends
1991
Korean War
1950
Hitler’s “10 year friendship” pact with Poland
1934
USSR boycotts LA Olympics
1984
USA’s Atlas ICBM
1957
Hungary opens border with Austria
May 1989
Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia
21st August 1968
USA develops hydrogen bomb
1952
Berlin blockade
1948
The Tet Offensive
1968
Geneva summit (Reagan and Gorbachev)
1985
Hitler takes over rest of Czechoslovakia
March 1939
SALT 2 treaty (NOT RATIFIED)
1979
Young plan
1929
Italy leaving League
1937
Ceasefire in Vietnam
1973
Geneva protocol
1924
Germany reunified
1990
Tehran conference
November-December 1943
Dawes plan
1924
Great Depression
1929
Warsaw Pact
1955
Aaland Islands dispute
1921
Communist party takes over Czechoslovakia
February 1948
USSR invades Afghanistan
December 1979
Marshall plan
1947
Berlin airlift
June 1948-May 1949
Nuclear test ban treaty
1963
Anti-communism leader, Boris Yeltsin, elected
1991
Hitler brings in military conscription in Germany
1935
Comecon was set up
1949
USSR hydrogen bomb
1955
President Johnson sends in more troops and begins bombing campaign against North Vietnam
1963
Hitler invades Poland
1st September 1939
USSR getting expelled from League
1939
Treaty of Lausanne
1923
Yalta conference
February 1945
Japan signed treaty with Germany
1936
Gorbachev abandons Brezhnev doctrine
1988
Potsdam conference
August 1945
Introduction of martial law in Poland by Jaruzelski
1981
My Lai massacre
1968
Saar returns to Germany after plebiscite
January 1935
USA boycotts Moscow Olympics
1980
Germany and Japan leaving LoN
1933
Ceasefire agreed in Korea
1953
Treaty of Trianon
1920
Truman doctrine
1947
Reduction of weapons and troops in soviet armed forces
1988
Stalin dies and Khrushchev comes to power
1953
Soviets tanks invade Hungary
1956
Gorbachev comes to power
1985
Soviets test fired first ICBM
1957
Fall of communist government because of anti-communist demonstrations
December 1989
Rapallo treaty
1922
Treaty of St Germain
1919
Anti-Comintern pact
1937
Hitler threatens Czechoslovakia
May 1938
Treaty of Sevrès
1920
Geneva summit
1955
Iron curtain speech
1946
USSR withdraws forces from Afghanistan
1988
USA dropped atomic bombs on Japan
August 1945
Invasion of Abyssinia
October 1935
Hitler becomes chancellor
1933
Geneva conference
1954
Anschluss
March 1938
Hungarian uprising
October 1956
Most troops are withdrawn from Vietnam
1972
Helsinki agreement
1975
Fall of the Berlin Wall
November 1989
Prague spring in Czechoslovakia
1968
Kellogg-brand pact
1928
Free elections held in Poland where solidarity wins and new non-communist government
June 1989
Failed coup in USSR and end of Russian communism
1991
Brezhnev-Nixon summits
1972
Germany surrenders
May 1945
Italy invading Corfu
1923
USSR explodes A-bomb
1949
Solidarity in Poland
1980
Nazi-Soviet pact
August 1939
Khrushchev visits the USA
1959
Bay of pigs
April 1961
Further nationwide strikes in Poland that forced government to negotiate with solidarity
1988
U-2 spy planes detect soviet missiles in Cuba
1962
When did the league begin
January 1920
China and North Korea capture Seoul
January 1951
Treaty of Neuilly
1919
Hitler sends troops into the Rhineland
March 1936
Disarmament INF treaty
1987
Washington conference
1921
Ronald Reagan becomes president
1980
Rome-Berlin axis
1936
Upper Silesia dispute
1921
Cuban missile crisis
1962
Anglo-German naval agreement
1935
Locarno treaties
1925
Austrian state treaty
1955
Greece invading Bulgaria
1925
Revolution in Romania and dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was excited
Christmas 1989
U-2 American spy plane shot down
1960
NATO
1949
Munich conference
29th September 1938
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
September 1931
UN forces drove North Korea back over 38th parallel
September 1950
Pact of steel
1939
SALT 1 treaty
1972
When was the treaty of Versailles signed?
June 1919