Dates Flashcards
1
Q
Potsdam
A
1945
July
2
Q
Teheran
A
1943
3
Q
Yalta
A
1945
Feb
4
Q
Soviet expansion
A
1945-7
5
Q
Iron curtain
A
1946
6
Q
Truman Doctrine
A
1947
7
Q
Marshall plan
A
1947
8
Q
Berlin Blockade
A
June 1948 - may 1949
9
Q
NATO
A
1949
10
Q
Comecon
A
1949
11
Q
US atomic bomb
A
1945
12
Q
USSR atomic bomb
A
1949
13
Q
Chinese Communist Revolution in China
A
1949
14
Q
Korean War
A
1950-55
15
Q
US H-bomb
A
1952
16
Q
USSR H-bomb
A
1953
17
Q
Warsaw Pact
A
1955
18
Q
Stalin dies / Khrushchev takes over
A
1953
19
Q
Khrushchev secret speech
A
1956
20
Q
Hungarian uprising
A
1956-57
21
Q
NASA founded
A
1957
22
Q
Castro is leader
A
1959
23
Q
JFK leader
A
1961
24
Q
Berlin crisis
A
1961
25
Camp David
1959
| Sep
26
Geneva Summit 1
1959
| May
27
Paris Summit
1960
| May
28
Vienna Summit
1961
| June
29
1st Ultimatum
Nov 1958
30
Wall built
Aug 1961
31
JFK speech in Berlin
1963
32
Bay of pigs
1961
33
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
34
Khrushchev started sending missiles to Cuba
Sep 1962
35
U2 spy plane took pics of Cuba
Oct 1962
36
Khrushchev sacked
1964
37
Brezhnev leader
1964
38
Prague spring
1968
39
Czechoslovakia invasion
1968 August
40
Czech national income fell
1962-3
41
Nixon president
1969
42
Brezhnev doctrine
1968
43
SALT 1
1972
44
Nixons visit to Moscow
1972
45
Apollo-Soyuz mission
1975
46
Helsinki Agreements
1975
47
Carter president
1977
48
SALT 2
1979
49
Afghan invasion
1979
50
Carter doctrine
1979
51
Soviet troops removed from Afghanistan
1989
52
US boycott olympics
1980
53
Reagan president
1981
54
Brezhnev dies, Andropov leader
1982
55
SDI
1983
56
Andropov dies, Chernenko leader
1984
57
Soviet boycott Olympic games
1984
58
Chernenko dies, Gorbachev leader
1985
59
Geneva Accord
Nov 1985
60
Reykjavik summit meeting
1986
61
INF treaty
1987
62
Washington Summit 1
1987
63
Gorbachev rejected Brezhnev doctrine
1988
64
Sinatra doctrine
1989
65
Official end of Cold War
1989
66
Malta summit
1989
67
Hungary opened its boarders to Austria
1989
68
Bush president
1989
69
Latvia, Lithuania + Estonia indep
1990
70
Stalin added satellite states
1945
71
CFE treaty
1990
72
Moscow Summit
1990
73
Washington Summit 2
1990
74
START 1 signed
1991
75
Gorbachev resigns after being almost overthrown in coup
Dec 1991
76
Dubcek leader
1968 Jan
77
Hotline
1963 June
78
Limited Test Ban Treaty
1963 Aug
79
Outer Space Treaty
1967
80
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
1968
81
Nagy replaces Rakosi
1956
82
MAD
1965
83
FRG made
Sep
| 1949
84
GDR made
Oct 1949
85
Bizonia
1947
86
Novikov's Telegram
1946
| Sep
87
The Long Telegram
1946
| Feb
88
Kabul Revolution
April 1978
89
Taraki assassinated
October 1979
90
Amin prime minister
1979
91
Karmal's presidency
Dec 1979 - 86
92
Second Cold War
1979 - 1985
93
Evil Empire speech
March 1983
94
START talks start
1982