Key Dates: Shorter Flashcards
1945
Yalta and Potsdam Conference + Truman elected April until 53
1947
Truman Doctrine
1948
Berlin Blockade + Airlift - 49 + Marshall Aid
1949
Berlin Blockade + airlift + NATO is formed + PRC is formed
1950
NSC 68 + Korean War starts
1951
Korean War
1952
Korean War
1953
Korean War ends + Khrushchev is elected until 1964 + Eisenhower is elected until 61
1955
Warsaw Pact + Vietnam War starts lasts til 75
1956
Hungarian Revolution + Khrushchev’s secret speech
1957
Eisenhower Doctrine + SPUTNIK
1960
U2 Spy Plane
1961
Berlin Wall - 89 + Bay of Pigs + JFK is elected until 1963
1962
Kennedy Doctrine + Cuban Missile Crisis
1963
Johnson Elected until 1969
1964
Brezhnev elected until 82
1965
Johnson Doctrine
1968
Czechoslovakian invasion (Prague Spring) + Brezhnev Doctrine
1969
Nixon Doctrine + Nixon is elected until 74
1972
SALT II
1974
Ford elected until 77
1977
Carter elected until 81
1979
SALT II
1980
Carter Doctrine
1985
Gorbachev elected until 1989
1991
End of cold war
1981
Reagan elected until 89