Events - Date of Occurrence Flashcards
American president Harry Truman’s doctrine about containment of communism
1947
Marshall plan for western Europe
1947-52
Berlin blockade
148-49
Korean war
1950-53
- Defeat of the French by the Vietnamese
- signing of the Geneva accord
- division of Vietnam along 17th parallel
- formation of SEATO
1954
American intervention Vietnam
1954-75
signing of Baghdad pact
1955
soviet intervention in Hungary
1956
- invasion of Cuba
- construction of Berlin wall
1961
Cuban missile crisis
1962
American intervention of Dominican Republic
1965
soviet intervention of Czechoslovakia
1968
US president Richard Nixon’s visit to China
1972
Vietnamese intervention in Cambodia
1978-79
Soviet intervention in Afghanistan
1979-89
Gorbachev becomes the president of USSR and begins the reform process.
1985
Fall of Berlin wall
1989
Unification of Germany
1990
Disintegration of Soviet Union
End of Cold War
1991
Independence Movement in Lithuania
1988
Soviet Union declares the Warsaw pact.
OCT,1989
Independence of Lithuania
MARCH 1990
Boris Yeltsin becomes the president of Russia
JUNE, 1991
Gorbachev resigns.
end of Soviet Union
25 DEC, 1991
Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia becomes the UN members.
SEP,1991
Six western European countries, France, west Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg sign the treaty of Paris establishing the European coal and steel community (ECSC)
APRIL 1951
Six countries sign treaties of Rome establishing the European Economic Community (EEC)
MARCH 25, 1957
Denmark, Ireland and United Kingdom join the EEC.
JAN,1973
First direct elections to the European parliament
JUN 1979
Greece joins the EC.
JAN 1981