key dates! Flashcards
When was the Russian Revolution?
1917
When was the Polish-Russian War?
1920
Between which years did the Soviet Foreign policy last?
1922-41
When did Joseph Stalin become leader of the USSR?
1929
When was the Nazi-Soviet pact agreed on?
1939
When was the Tehran Conference?
Nov 1943, Iran
When was the Yalta Conference?
Feb 1945, Ukraine
When was the Potsdam Conference?
May 1945, Germany
When were the atomic bombs dropped on Japan by the USA?
1945
When was the Hungarian Uprising?
1945-56
Between which dates was Stalin practicing ‘Salami Tactics’?
1945-49
Between which dates was ‘The Brain Drain’ occuring?
1945-61
When was the ‘Long Telegram’ released?
1946 by George Kennan
When was the Iron Curtain speech?
1946
When was the Russian telegram released?
1946 by Nikolai Novikov
When was the Truman Doctrine?
1947
When was Cominform?
1947
When did the Marshal Plan take place?
1948
When was the Treaty of Brussels?
1948
When was Comecon?
1949
Between which years did the Arms Race take place?
1949-91
When was the Berlin Blockade first started and ended?
started: 1948 and ended: May 1949
When was Trizonia formally formed?
1949
When did the Soviets test their first atomic bomb?
1949
When were the USA and USSR’s hydrogen bombs created?
USA: 1952 and USSR: 1953
When did Stalin die?
1953
Between what days did the Bay of Pigs invasion take place?
17th April - 20th April 1961
When did the Cuban Missile Crisis take place?
October 1962
When was the Checkpoint Charlie stand off?
Oct 1961
When was the Berlin wall built?
1961
When was the Paris Summit?
1960
When was the Vienna Summit?
1961
When was the Brain Drain
throughout the 1950s
When was the Cuban Missile Crisis
16th Oct 1962
When was the Bay of Pigs
17th April 1961
When was the ‘Ich Bin ein Berliner’ speech and by who?
June 1963, J.F. Kennedy
When was Prague Spring?
January 1968
When was the Geneva Summit
1955
When did the Berlin wall fall?
9th Nov 1989
When did the Soviet Union collapse?
26th Dec 1991
When was the Afghan war?
1978-92
When was Detente?
late 1960s - late 1970s
When was SALT I
May 1972
When was SALT II
May 1979
When was the Berlin blockade?
June 1948 - 1949
When was the Korean war?
1950-53
When was was hot-line set up between the White house and Kremlin?
1963
When dis Brezhnev come to power?
1964
When did Nixon come to power?
1969
When was the end of Detente?
1980
When did Reagan come to power?
1981
When did Gorbachev come to power?
1985
When was Gorbachev’s ‘new thinking’?
1985, Glasnost and Perestroika
When was the coup to overthrow Gorbachev?
1991, failed
When was the end of the Cold War?
1991
