Dates Flashcards
Potsdam
1945
July
Teheran
1943
Yalta
1945
Feb
Soviet expansion
1945-7
Iron curtain
1946
Truman Doctrine
1947
Marshall plan
1947
Berlin Blockade
June 1948 - may 1949
NATO
1949
Comecon
1949
US atomic bomb
1945
USSR atomic bomb
1949
Chinese Communist Revolution in China
1949
Korean War
1950-55
US H-bomb
1952
USSR H-bomb
1953
Warsaw Pact
1955
Stalin dies / Khrushchev takes over
1953
Khrushchev secret speech
1956
Hungarian uprising
1956-57
NASA founded
1957
Castro is leader
1959
JFK leader
1961
Berlin crisis
1961
Camp David
1959
Sep
Geneva Summit 1
1959
May
Paris Summit
1960
May
Vienna Summit
1961
June
1st Ultimatum
Nov 1958
Wall built
Aug 1961
JFK speech in Berlin
1963
Bay of pigs
1961
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
Khrushchev started sending missiles to Cuba
Sep 1962
U2 spy plane took pics of Cuba
Oct 1962
Khrushchev sacked
1964
Brezhnev leader
1964
Prague spring
1968
Czechoslovakia invasion
1968 August
Czech national income fell
1962-3
Nixon president
1969
Brezhnev doctrine
1968
SALT 1
1972
Nixons visit to Moscow
1972
Apollo-Soyuz mission
1975
Helsinki Agreements
1975
Carter president
1977
SALT 2
1979
Afghan invasion
1979
Carter doctrine
1979
Soviet troops removed from Afghanistan
1989
US boycott olympics
1980
Reagan president
1981
Brezhnev dies, Andropov leader
1982
SDI
1983
Andropov dies, Chernenko leader
1984
Soviet boycott Olympic games
1984
Chernenko dies, Gorbachev leader
1985
Geneva Accord
Nov 1985
Reykjavik summit meeting
1986
INF treaty
1987
Washington Summit 1
1987
Gorbachev rejected Brezhnev doctrine
1988
Sinatra doctrine
1989
Official end of Cold War
1989
Malta summit
1989
Hungary opened its boarders to Austria
1989
Bush president
1989
Latvia, Lithuania + Estonia indep
1990
Stalin added satellite states
1945
CFE treaty
1990
Moscow Summit
1990
Washington Summit 2
1990
START 1 signed
1991
Gorbachev resigns after being almost overthrown in coup
Dec 1991
Dubcek leader
1968 Jan
Hotline
1963 June
Limited Test Ban Treaty
1963 Aug
Outer Space Treaty
1967
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
1968
Nagy replaces Rakosi
1956
MAD
1965
FRG made
Sep
1949
GDR made
Oct 1949
Bizonia
1947
Novikov’s Telegram
1946
Sep
The Long Telegram
1946
Feb
Kabul Revolution
April 1978
Taraki assassinated
October 1979
Amin prime minister
1979
Karmal’s presidency
Dec 1979 - 86
Second Cold War
1979 - 1985
Evil Empire speech
March 1983
START talks start
1982