Dates of Events Flashcards
Tehran Conference
Nov 1943
Grand Alliance
1941-1945
Yalta Conference
Feb 4th-11th 1945
VE Day
May 8th 1945
Potsdam Conference
July 1945
Hiroshima Atomic Bomb
Aug 6th 1945
Russia Declared War on Japan
Aug 8th 1945
Nagasaki Bomb
Aug 9th 1945
Japan Surrenders
Aug 14th 1945
Stalin hostile speech
Feb 9th 1946
Churchills Iron Curtain Speech
March 5th 1946
Truman demands Russia leaves Iran
March 10th 1946
Operation Cross Roads
July 1946
Americas Test Baker Underwater Explosion
July 25th 1945
Truman Doctrine
March 12th 1947
Marshall Plan Announced
June 1947
Rio Pact
Sept 2nd 1947
Czechoslovakia under communist control
Feb 25th 1948
Truman’s Loyalty Program
March 2nd 1948
Berlin Blockade Starts
June 24th 1948
NATO Ratified
April 4th 1949
Berlin Blockade Ends
May 12th 1949
Russia Tests First Atomic Bomb
29th Aug 1949
Communist Leader in China
Oct 1st 1949
US H-Bomb developed
Jan 30th 1950
11 Explosions at atomic test series in Nevada
March 17th - June 4th 1953
KGB established
March 13th 1954
Warsaw Pact Formed
14th May 1955
Hungarian Uprising
23rd Oct - 11th Nov 1956
First US ICBM - Atlas A
June 6th 1957
First Soviet ICBM - Vostok Rocket
Aug 26th 1957
Sputnik Launched
Oct 4th 1957
Kruschev Withdraws Berlin Troops
Nov 10th 1958
Cuban Revolution Begins
26th July 1953
Cuban Revolution Ends
1st January 1959
Fidel Castro is leader of Cuba
Feb 16th 1959
Batista Overthrown in Cuba
Jan 1st 1959
the Long telegram
Feb 22nd 1946
the Novikov telegram
Sept 27th 1946
The Kitchen Debates
July 24th 1959
Geneva Summit
July 18th - 23rd 1955
Camp David Summit
Sept 15th and 27th 1959
US U-2 Spy Plane shot down over soviet territory
May 1st 1960
Cuba aligns themselves with Soviet Union and their politics
Dec 19th 1960
Bay of Pigs Invasion
April 17th 1961
Berlin Border Closed
Aug 13th 1961
Berlin Wall Construction Begins
Aug 17th 1961
Cuban Missile Crisis
Oct 16th - 29th 1962
Nuclear Test Ban ratified
Aug 5th 1963
Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas, Texas
Nov 22nd 1963
Prague Spring
Nov 17th - Nov 28th 1968
Nixon Visits China
Feb 21st 1972
SALT 1 Signed
May 26th 1972
US and China establish diplomatic relations
Jan 1st 1979
SALT 2 Signed
June 17th 1979
Soviet Invade Afghanistan
Dec 24th 1979
Carter Doctrine
Jan 23rd 1980
SDI (Strategic Defensive Initiative) or Star Wars
March 23rd 1983
Gorbachevs starts Perestroika
1985
Perestroika ends
1991
Gorbachev starts Glasnost
1986
Glasnost Ends
1991
Gorbachev’s Reforms
1985-1991
INF Treaty (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces)
Dec 8th 1987
Soviet Troops Withdraw From Afghanistan
May 15th 1988 - Feb 15th 1989
Poland loses one-party rule
Aug 24th 1889
Hungary is no longer communist
Oct 23rd 1989
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Nov 9th 1989
Demolition of Berlin Wall begins
June 13th 1990
Offical Reunification of East and West Germany
Oct 3rd 1990
Communist Government Falls in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Romania
Dec 1989
Vienna Summit
June 3rd to 4th 1961
Glassboro Summit
June 23rd and 25th 1967
Moscow Summit
May 22nd - 30th 1972
Washington DC Summit
June 18th - 25th 1973
Second Moscow Summit
June 28th - July 3rd 1974
Vladivostok Summit
Nov 23rd - 24th 1974
Helsinki Summit
July 30th and Aug 2nd 1975
Helsinki Accords
Aug 1st 1975
Vienna Summit
June 15th - 18th 1979
Geneva Summit 2
Nov 19th - 21st 1985
Reykjavik Summit
Oct 11th - 12th 1986
Malta Summit
Dec 2nd / 3rd 1989
Warsaw Pact Ends
Feb 25th 1990
End of Soviet Union/Cold War
Aug 1991
