Key dates Flashcards
1
Q
Bolshevik revolution
A
1917
2
Q
Nazi - Soviet pact
A
Aug 1939
3
Q
Operation Barbarossa
A
June 1941
4
Q
Pearl harbour attack
A
Dec 1941
5
Q
Grand alliance
A
1941
6
Q
2nd front asked for
A
1942
7
Q
2nd front given
A
1944
8
Q
Katyn massacre
A
1940 `
9
Q
Katyn graves dug up
A
1943
10
Q
Warsaw uprising
A
1944
11
Q
Yalta conference
A
4 - 11 Feb 1945
12
Q
Potsdam conference
A
17 Jul - 1 Aug 1945
13
Q
Percentages agreement
A
Oct 1944
14
Q
Germany defeated
A
May 1945
15
Q
Gomulka replaced by Beirut in Poland
A
1948
16
Q
Communist leader of Poland Rajk executed
A
1949
17
Q
Socialist and communist parties merge in Poland
A
Jan 1947
18
Q
Red army disarms Romanian army
A
1945
19
Q
- Czechoslovakia – non-communist parties resigned followed by the leader to hand the country over to USSR.
A
1948
20
Q
All other political parties banned
A
1947
21
Q
Yugoslavia expelled from cominform
A
1948
22
Q
Kennan telegram
A
Feb 1946
23
Q
Iron Curtain speech
A
March 1946
24
Q
Pravda article
A
March 1946
25
Novikov telegram
Sep 1946
26
USSR walk out of Paris Peace conference
Jul 1947
27
Greek Civil war
1946-9
28
US get involved in Greek Civil War
1947
29
Truman Doctrine
March 1947
30
Marshall plan
June 1947
31
Cominform set up
Sep 1947
32
Zhandov doctrine
1946
33
NATO
Apr 1949
34
Comecon set up
1949
35
Czechoslovakian crisis
1948
36
US refuse soviet occupation if Ruhr, depriving German population and a centralised Germany
1947
37
Bizonia made
Jan 1947
38
New currency in West Germany
June 1948
39
West Germany gets Marshall aid, East denied
1948
40
Berlin blockade began
June 1948
41
End of berlin blockade
12 May 1949
42
Bombs dropped on Japan
Aug 1945
43
Japan rebel against French occupation
1945
44
Reverse course
1947
45
China became communist
Oct 1949
46
Sino soviet treaty of friendship
1950
47
San Francisco peace treaty
1951
48
Plans for new japanese air force
Nov 1952
49
Defensive perimeter strategy
Jan 1950
50
NSC-68
1950
51
Moscow conference for provisional korean government
Dec 1945
52
North Korea invade south
Jun 1950
53
MacArthur lands at Inchon
Sep 1950
54
Chinese troops join Korean war
Oct 1950
55
MacArthur dismissed
April 1951
56
Peace negotiations for Korean war begin
July 1951
57
Armistice agreed for Korean war
Jul 1953
58
Stalin dies
March 1953
59
House of un american activities made permenant
1945
60
Rosenburg trial
1951
61
Alger Hiss affair
1948
62
McCarthy accused US army and was discredited
1954
63
UN set up
Oct 1945
64
60 mostly pro western UN members
1950
65
Eisenhower inaugurated
Jan 1953
66
Germany joined council of Europe
Nov 1949
67
Treaty signed in Bonn
May 1952
68
USSR agree to give China defence based technology
May 1953
69
Khrushchev visits China
Sep - Oct 1953
70
SEATO set up
Sep 1954
71
FRG join Nato
9th May 1955
72
Warsaw pact made
14th May 1955
73
Domino theory first set out
1954
74
New look policy announced
Jan 1954
75
US paying 75% of war in Indochina
1954
76
DIen Bien Phu
April 1954
77
Austrian State Treaty
May 1955
78
Secret Speech
Feb 1956
79
Geneva Summit
Sep 1955
80
Polish uprising
June - Oct 1956
81
Hungarian Uprising
Oct - Nov 1956
82
Camp David talks
Sep 1959
83
Paris Summit
May 1960
84
Kennedy became president
Jan 1961
85
Vienna Summit
June 1961
86
Sputnik
4 Oct 1957
87
Sputnik 2
Nov 1957
88
Flopnik
Dec 1947
89
NASA set up
1958
90
Soviet satellite to moon
1959
91
US discoverer programme set up
Aug 1960
92
Yuri Gagarin in space
12 Aug 1961
93
US = 63 space missions, USSR = 15
1962
94
US go to the moon
1969
95
Strategic air command set up
21 March 1946
96
US test first lithium bomb
March 1954
97
first USSR ICBM tested
26 Aug 1957
98
Gaither report
Nov 1957
99
Bermuda conference
1957
100
US deploy nuclear submarines
9 June 1959
101
Workers riots in East Germany crushed
1953
102
Hallstein Doctrine
1955
103
1st ultimatum made
Nov 1958
104
Warsaw powers met to plan Berlin wall
June 1961
105
Wall went up
13 Aug 1961
106
Ich bin ein Berliner speech
1963
107
Geneva conference ends indochinese war
1954
108
Elections meant to happen for Vietnamese reunification
1956
109
Revolt in North Vietnam and 6000 killed
1956
110
Recommendations to Kennedy about Vietnam by Taylor and Roscow
Nov 1961
111
NFL formed in Vietnam
1960
112
Strategic hamlet programme began
1962
113
Buddhist revolt
May 1963
114
General coup in Vietnam
1 Nov 1963
115
Diem and PM (brother) assassinated
2 Nov 1963
116
Castro and Los Barbudos arrive in Cuba
1956
117
Castro becomes PM of Cuba
1959
118
Agrarian reform in Cuba
1959
119
Castro goes to UN but Eisenhower refuses to meet him
1959
120
$100 million in credit given to Cuba by USSR
Feb 1960
121
1st crude oil shipment from USSR to Cuba and economic sanctions placed by US to lower sugar imports
April 1960
122
Bay of pigs
April 1961
123
Operation Mongoose
Nov 1961
124
Cuban missile crisis
14 - 28 Oct 1962
125
Whitehouse - Kremlin hotline
1963
126
Nuclear test ban treaty
5 Aug 1963
127
Non proliferation treaty
1968
128
Johnson's presidency
1963 - 69
129
Inc in military advisors Johnson
1964 16,000 -> 23,300
130
Gulf of Tonkin
Aug 1964
131
Ground troops enter Vietnam
1965
132
Increase in ground troops
1965 - 100,000
1968 - 565,000
133
Op rolling thunder
1965
134
Tonnes of bombs in op rolling thunder
864,000
135
Tet offensive
1968
136
Nixon becomes president
1969
137
Troop withdrawal
1969 - 543,000
1972 - 47,000
138
Spring offensive
1972
139
Number bombs op linebacker
150,000
140
War enters Cambodia
1969
141
Cambodian leader overthrown
1970
142
Students killed Kent state
1970
143
War enters Laos
1971
144
Kennedy assassinated
1963
145
Khrushchev ousted
1964
146
Dubcek becomes leader Czechoslovakia
1968
147
Reforms in Czechoslovakia
1968
148
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
1968
149
Dubcek replaced by Husak
1969
150
Brezhnev doctrine
1968
151
Malinovsky incident
1964
152
Chinese cultural revolution
1966
153
Beginning of paris peace talks
1972
154
Signing of paris peace agreement
1973
155
US withdrawn from Vietnam
1973
156
Saigon falls to socialism
1975
157
End of Khmer Rouge
1978
158
Soldiers served by US in vietnam
2.7 mil - 9%`
159
Money spent by US on Vietnam
$167 bil
160
SEATO disbanded
1976
161
NLF deaths
1.1 mil
162
Vietnamese refugees
1.5 mil
163
SALT 1
1972
164
Moscow summit (nuclear)
1972
165
Vladivostok part 1
1974
166
Vladivostok 2
1977
167
Vienna Summit (nuclear)
1979
168
Treaty of Moscow
1970
169
Treaty of Warsaw
1970
170
4 power agreement
1971
171
Basic treaty
1972
172
Both Germanys in UN
1973
173
Helsinki Accords
1975
174
Nixon visits China
1969
175
Ping pong diplomacy
1971
176
Nixon visits china 2nd time
1972
177
Ford visits China
1975
178
Deng visits Us
1979
179
Taiwan removed UN security council
1971
180
Recognition given to China not Taiwan
1978
181
PDPA gain power Afghanistan
1978
182
Invasion of Afghanistan
1979
183
Moscow olympics boycott
1980
184
SDI introduced
1983
185
Pope visits Poland
1979
1983
1987
186
Solidarity begins
1980
187
Solidarity growth
1980 3.5 mil
1981 9.4 mil
188
Martial law Poland
1981
189
Solidarity illegal
1982
190
KAL 007
1983
191
Civil war angola
1975
192
End of Angolan war
1976
193
Ethiopia war begins
1977
194
Ceasefire Ethiopia
1978
195
Allende elected in Chile
1970
196
Allende overthrown in Chile
1973
197
New Jewel movement Grenada
1979
198
Coard gained power Grenada
1983
199
Sandinistas win Nicaragua
1982
200
Gorbachev becomes leader USSR
1985
201
%GNP spent on military USSR
25
202
Joint ventures
61 by 1988
203
Budget deficit figures USSR
1988 - 12% GNP
US - 3.5%
204
Loss through alcohol policies
100 mil rubles
205
Geneva Summit
1985
206
Rekjavik summit
1986
207
Washington Summit
1987
208
Moscow 1 summit
1988
209
Malta Summit
1989
210
Paris Summit
1990
211
Moscow 2 summit
1991
212
INF treaty
1987
213
CFE treaty
1990
214
comecon collapse
1991
215
Poland non communist
1989
216
Martial law ends Poland
1986
217
Elections Poland
1989
218
Hungary non communist
1990
219
Kadar resigns Hungary
1988
220
Czechoslovakia non communist
1989
221
East Germany collpase
1990
222
Hungary opened Austrian border
1989
223
Bulgaria non communist
1990
224
Zhikov to Mladenov Bulgaria
1989
225
Romania non communist
1990
226
Protesters protect Tokes
1989
227
Withdrawal from Afghnaistan announced
1988
228
Withdrawal from Afghanistan complete
1989
229
Support for Contras ends
1980 Nicaragua
230
Americans support Chamorro
$1 mil 1990
231
Peace accords El Salvador
1992
232
Elections El Salvador
1994
233
Peace agreement Angola
1988
234
Ethiopia Marxist
1987
235
Reunification Germany
1990
236
Gorbachev reintroduces hardliners into govt
1991
237
Union Treaty
Aug 1991
238
Coup against Gorbachev
1991
239
Georgia demand independence
1989
240
Baltic Assembly
1989
241
Baltic Way
2 mil 1989
242
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia independent
1990
243
CIS
1990
244
End of USSR
1991
245
US principles for ex republics to gain aid
1991
246
US recognition of ex republics
12 1991
