important dates Flashcards
Yalta Conference
Feb 1945
Potsdam Conference
July 1945
NATO formation
1949
Warsaw Pact formation
1955
Stalin dies
1953
Hungarian Uprising
1956
Czechoslovakia and Prague Spring
1968
Brezhnev Doctrine
1968
Berlin wall built
1961
U2 plane shot down over USSR
1960
First artificial satellite launched and Soviets test fire the first intercontinental ballistic missile
1957
First submarine launched
1960
First man in space - Yuri Gagarin
1961
First man on the moon- Neil Armstrong
1969
Polish economy in crisis
1979
Polish Government forces to raise price of goods
July 1980
Truman Doctrine
1947
Treaty of St Germain - Austria
1919
Treaty of Trianon -Hungary
1920
Treaty of Neuilly - Bulgaria
1919
Treaty of Sevres - Turkey
1920
Korean war
Start 1950
End 1953
General MacArthur gets sacked - Korean war
1951
Cuban revolution - leader goes from Batista to Castro
1959
Bay of Pigs
1961
Vienna Summit - Khrushchev and Kennedy meet
1961
Khrushchev public ally announces he will provide Cuba with arms
1961
Khrushchev tells Kennedy he has no intention of placing missiles on Cuba
Sept 1962
US spy plane photographs the construction of nuclear missiles on Cuba
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
Late October 1962
Gulf of Tonkin incident
1964
Operation Rolling Thunder starts
1965
First American combat troops
1965
Tet Offensive
1968
Beginning of Operation Phoenix
1968
My Lai massacre
March 1968
Start of Vietnamization - President Nixon
1968
Nixon attacks Cambodia
1970
Ceasefire of Vietnam War was signed
1973
Russia defeated in Russo - Japan war
1905
Bloody Sunday
Jan 1905
Russian Revolution - No more tsars
1905
Mutiny on Potemkin
1905
October Manifesto
1905
The Fundemental laws passed in Russia
1906
First Duma established
1906
Feb / March revolution
1917
Nicolas 2 abdicates
feb/ march 1917
Stolypin associanted
1911
Russian inflation reaches 200%
1917
Stalin blocks all road and rail links into West Berlin
1948