Foreign Policy (1945-75) Timeline

Question 1

When was the Truman doctrine?

Answer 1

1947

Question 2

when was Marshall aid ($13 billion for Europe rebuild)?

Answer 2

1948

Question 3

when was the Berlin airlift?

Answer 3

1948-49

Question 4

when did USSR test first nuclear weapons?

Answer 4

1949

Question 5

when was NATO created?

Answer 5

1949

Question 6

When did Mao and the communists take control of china?

Answer 6

1949

Question 7

when was the Korean War?

Answer 7

1950-53

Question 8

when was the US Taiwan defence treaty?

Answer 8

1954

Question 9

when did Khrushchev succeed Stalin and create the Warsaw Pact?

Answer 9

1955

Question 10

when did Khrushchev sent tanks to Hungary?

Answer 10

1956

Question 11

when did US begin war with North Vietnam to prevent spread of communism?

Answer 11

1956 (Mao ordered terror attcks of south in 1959)

Question 12

when did the Paris summit meeting over Berlin fail after U2 spy plane was shot down with Gary powers?

Answer 12

1960

Question 13

when was the Suez Canal seized by Egypt (US refused to help UK and France)?

Answer 13

1956

Question 14

when did Castro take control of Cuba and eject US control?

Answer 14

1959

Question 15

when did Khrushchev order the building of the Berlin Wall?

Answer 15

1961

Question 16

when was the Bay of pigs where US failed to regain Cuba?

Answer 16

1961

Question 17

when did Castro convert Cuba to communism?

Answer 17

1961

Question 18

when was the cuban missile crisis (led to period of dente)?

Answer 18

1962

Question 19

when was US Madox fired on and the gulf of Tonkin resolution?

Answer 19

1964

Question 20

when was the Set offensive and My Lai Massacre?

Answer 20

1968

Question 21

when did the US lift the 21 year trade embargo on china as a result of ping pong?

Answer 21

1971

Question 22

when was SALT 1 signed to limit nuclear weapons?

Answer 22

1972

Question 23

when was a cease fire and peace treaty agreed with Vietnam?

Answer 23

1973 (jan)

Question 24

when did communism defeat south Vietnam?

Answer 24

1975

Question 25

when was Helsinki agreement (US and USSR agree to respect human rights and current European boundaries)?

Answer 25

1975

Question 26

when was Truman president?

Answer 26

1945 - 53

Question 27

when was Eisenhower president?

Answer 27

1953 - 61

Question 28

when was JKF president?

Answer 28

1961 - 63

Question 29

When was Johnson president?

Answer 29

1963 - 69

Question 30

when was Nixon president?

Answer 30

1969 - 74