Key Dates in the Cold War Flashcards
1
Q
Tehran Conference
A
November 1943
2
Q
First successful US atomic bomb test
A
1945
3
Q
USA detonates atomic bombs over Japan
A
August 1945
4
Q
Yalta conference
A
Febuary 1945
5
Q
Kennan’s long telegram
A
February 1946
6
Q
Churchill makes iron curtain speech
A
March 1946
7
Q
Truman Doctrine
A
March 1947
8
Q
Marshal plan
A
June 1947
9
Q
Berlin Blockade
A
June 1948
10
Q
Formation of the federal republic of Germany
A
September 1949
11
Q
NATO set up
A
April 1949
12
Q
Geneva Summit
A
May 1959
13
Q
Socialist revolution in Cuba overthrows President Batista
A
1959
14
Q
Bay of Pigs incident
A
1961
15
Q
Vienna Summit
A
1961
16
Q
President Kennedy visits Berlin
A
1963
17
Q
Limited Test Ban treaty
A
1963
18
Q
Outer Space treaty
A
1967
19
Q
SALT 1 agreement
A
1972
20
Q
Carter Doctrine
A
1979
21
Q
Moscow Olympics
A
1980
22
Q
Ronald Reagen makes ‘Evil Empire’ speech
A
1983
23
Q
Los Angeles Olympics
A
1984
24
Q
INF treaty
A
1987
25
Grand Alliance between Britan, Soviet Union and USA formed.
1941
26
Germany invades soviet union
1941
27
Postdam Conference
July 1945
28
End of World War 2
1945
29
Novikov telegram
September 1946
30
Formation of Cominform
1947 - 1st meeting September 1947
31
The Communist government in Polland
January 1947
32
Communist Government in Czechoslovakia
February 1948
33
Formation of German Democratic Republic
1949
34
Comecon set up
January 1949
35
Formation of the Warsaw Pact
May 1955
36
Hungarian uprising
1956 - crushed in November
37
Camp David summit
September 1959
38
Berlin Wall built
August 1961
39
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
40
Brezhnev doctrine
1968
41
Warsaw Pact troops put down Prague Spring
1968
42
Nuclear Non-proliferation treaty
1968
43
Helsinki agreements
1975
44
Soviet Union invades Afghanistan
1979
45
SALT 2 agreement
1979
46
Geneva Summit 2
1985
47
Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the SU
1985
48
Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster
1986
49
Reykjavik Summit
1986
50
Fall of the Berlin War
1989
51
Warsaw Pact dissolved
1991
52
Gorbachev removed from power
1991
53
Stalin dies
March 1953
54
Eisenhower takes office as US president
January 1953
55
West Germany joins NATO
May 1955
