Origins of the Cold War, 1945-49 Flashcards
1
Q
Potsdam Conference
A
July 1945
2
Q
NATO formed
A
April 1949
4
Q
Churchill gives his ‘Iron Curtain’ speech
A
March 1946
6
Q
The USSR successfully detonated atomic bomb
A
August 1949
7
Q
The Marshall Plan is introduced
A
June 1947
9
Q
Communist victory in China, Mao Zedong takes over
A
October 1949
10
Q
Yalta Conference
A
February 1945
12
Q
End of the Berlin Blockade
A
May 1949
13
Q
Kennan’s Long Telegram published
A
February 1946
15
Q
Federal Republic of Germany and German Democratic Republic created
A
1949
16
Q
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
A
August 1945
17
Q
The Berlin Blockade begins
A
June 1948
18
Q
The Truman Doctrine begins as the UK is unable to provide aid the Greek anti-Communists
A
March 1947
20
Q
Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia
A
February 1948
