Dates Cold War Flashcards
Hitler attcks USSR. Allies UK and USA
June 1941
Tehran
November 1943
Yalta
Febuary 1943
VE day
May 1945
Potsdam
July 1945
USA drops atom bomb
August 1945
Kennan’s long telegram
Febuary 1946
Churchil’s Iron Curtain speech
March 1946
Novicov telegram
September 1946
Communist government elected in Poland
January 1947
Communists seize power in Czechoslovakia
Febuary 1948
Communist government elected in Hungary
May 1949
Berlin blockade
June 1948
Comecon
January 1949
NATO
April 1949
Federal Republic of Germany founded
September 1949
German Democratic Republic founded
October 1949
Warsaw Pact formed
May 1955
Cominform
September 1947
Berlin Crisis
1948
Deutchmark currency
June 1948
Operation Vittles (Berlin Airlift)
June 1948 - May 1949
USA tests hydrogen bomb
November 1952
Eisenhower president
January 1953
Stalin dies
1953
Soviet union tests hydrogen bomb
August 1953
German Federal Republic (West germany) joins NATO
May 1955
Khrushchev is new leader. Critisises Stalin in speech
Febuary 1956
Hungarian uprising crushed
November 1956
USA launch inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM)
June 1957
Soviet Union test first (ICBM)
August 1957
Imre Nagy, Hunarian PM, Executed
June 1958
Soviet Union develop Atomic bomb
1949
Geneva summit
July 1955
Marshall Aid
June 1947
Berlin Ultimatum
November 1958
Krushchev visits USA
September 1959
Camp David summit
September 1959
U-2 Crisis
May 1960