Key Dates Flashcards
When was
‘Percentages agreement’
1944
October
When was
Yalta Conference
1945
February
When was
the end of WW2
(in Europe)
1945
May
When was
Potsdam Conference
1945
July-August
When was
the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the end of WW2 in the Pacific
1945
August
When was
the long telegram
1946
February
When was
Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech
1946
March
When was
Truman’s speech outlining the Truman Doctrine
1947
March
When was
Cominform established
1947
September
When was
the Marshall Plan put into action
1948
April
When was
the beginning of the Berlin Blockade
1948
June
When was
Comecon established
1949
January
When was
NATO formed
1949
April
When was
the Berlin Blockade lifted
following the success of the Berlin Airlift
1949
May
When did
the USSR successfully test an atomic bomb?
1949
August
When was
Mao declares the formation of the People’s Republic of China
1949
October
When was
the North Korean invasion of the South
leading to the Korean War
1950
June
When does
the US succesfully tests a hydrogen bomb
1952
November
When did
the Korean War end
1953
July
When did
the French withdraw from Vietnam
1954
July
When was
the formation of the Warsaw Pact
1955
May
When was
the Hungarian Uprising
1956
October-November
When does
the USSR launches Sputnik
the first man-made satellite
1957
October
When does
Castro takes power in Cuba
1959
January
When is
a U2 spy plane shot down
(an American spy plane flying over Soviet territory)
1960
May
When was
the Bay of Bigs
invasion attempt
1961
April
When was the
construction of the Berlin Wall
1961
August
When does
the USSR explode the most powerful bomb in history
1961
October
When is
the Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
October
When is
the Prague Spring
1968
January-August
When does
Niel Armstrong set foot on the moon
(American astronaut who becomes first man on the moon)
1969
July
When is
SALT I
1972
May
