Foreign Policy (1945-75) Timeline Flashcards
When was the Truman doctrine?
1947
when was Marshall aid ($13 billion for Europe rebuild)?
1948
when was the Berlin airlift?
1948-49
when did USSR test first nuclear weapons?
1949
when was NATO created?
1949
When did Mao and the communists take control of china?
1949
when was the Korean War?
1950-53
when was the US Taiwan defence treaty?
1954
when did Khrushchev succeed Stalin and create the Warsaw Pact?
1955
when did Khrushchev sent tanks to Hungary?
1956
when did US begin war with North Vietnam to prevent spread of communism?
1956 (Mao ordered terror attcks of south in 1959)
when did the Paris summit meeting over Berlin fail after U2 spy plane was shot down with Gary powers?
1960
when was the Suez Canal seized by Egypt (US refused to help UK and France)?
1956
when did Castro take control of Cuba and eject US control?
1959
when did Khrushchev order the building of the Berlin Wall?
1961
when was the Bay of pigs where US failed to regain Cuba?
1961
when did Castro convert Cuba to communism?
1961
when was the cuban missile crisis (led to period of dente)?
1962
when was US Madox fired on and the gulf of Tonkin resolution?
1964
when was the Set offensive and My Lai Massacre?
1968
when did the US lift the 21 year trade embargo on china as a result of ping pong?
1971
when was SALT 1 signed to limit nuclear weapons?
1972
when was a cease fire and peace treaty agreed with Vietnam?
1973 (jan)
when did communism defeat south Vietnam?
1975
when was Helsinki agreement (US and USSR agree to respect human rights and current European boundaries)?
1975
when was Truman president?
1945 - 53
when was Eisenhower president?
1953 - 61
when was JKF president?
1961 - 63
When was Johnson president?
1963 - 69
when was Nixon president?
1969 - 74
