Key Dates in the Cold War Flashcards

1
Q

Tehran Conference

A

November 1943

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2
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First successful US atomic bomb test

A

1945

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3
Q

USA detonates atomic bombs over Japan

A

August 1945

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4
Q

Yalta conference

A

Febuary 1945

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5
Q

Kennan’s long telegram

A

February 1946

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6
Q

Churchill makes iron curtain speech

A

March 1946

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7
Q

Truman Doctrine

A

March 1947

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8
Q

Marshal plan

A

June 1947

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9
Q

Berlin Blockade

A

June 1948

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10
Q

Formation of the federal republic of Germany

A

September 1949

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11
Q

NATO set up

A

April 1949

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12
Q

Geneva Summit

A

May 1959

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13
Q

Socialist revolution in Cuba overthrows President Batista

A

1959

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14
Q

Bay of Pigs incident

A

1961

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15
Q

Vienna Summit

A

1961

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16
Q

President Kennedy visits Berlin

A

1963

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17
Q

Limited Test Ban treaty

A

1963

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18
Q

Outer Space treaty

A

1967

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19
Q

SALT 1 agreement

A

1972

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20
Q

Carter Doctrine

A

1979

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21
Q

Moscow Olympics

A

1980

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22
Q

Ronald Reagen makes ‘Evil Empire’ speech

A

1983

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23
Q

Los Angeles Olympics

A

1984

24
Q

INF treaty

A

1987

25
Q

Grand Alliance between Britan, Soviet Union and USA formed.

A

1941

26
Q

Germany invades soviet union

A

1941

27
Q

Postdam Conference

A

July 1945

28
Q

End of World War 2

A

1945

29
Q

Novikov telegram

A

September 1946

30
Q

Formation of Cominform

A

1947 - 1st meeting September 1947

31
Q

The Communist government in Polland

A

January 1947

32
Q

Communist Government in Czechoslovakia

A

February 1948

33
Q

Formation of German Democratic Republic

A

1949

34
Q

Comecon set up

A

January 1949

35
Q

Formation of the Warsaw Pact

A

May 1955

36
Q

Hungarian uprising

A

1956 - crushed in November

37
Q

Camp David summit

A

September 1959

38
Q

Berlin Wall built

A

August 1961

39
Q

Cuban Missile Crisis

A

1962

40
Q

Brezhnev doctrine

A

1968

41
Q

Warsaw Pact troops put down Prague Spring

A

1968

42
Q

Nuclear Non-proliferation treaty

A

1968

43
Q

Helsinki agreements

A

1975

44
Q

Soviet Union invades Afghanistan

A

1979

45
Q

SALT 2 agreement

A

1979

46
Q

Geneva Summit 2

A

1985

47
Q

Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the SU

A

1985

48
Q

Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster

A

1986

49
Q

Reykjavik Summit

A

1986

50
Q

Fall of the Berlin War

A

1989

51
Q

Warsaw Pact dissolved

A

1991

52
Q

Gorbachev removed from power

A

1991

53
Q

Stalin dies

A

March 1953

54
Q

Eisenhower takes office as US president

A

January 1953

55
Q

West Germany joins NATO

A

May 1955