The Cold War Dates Flashcards
When was the first successful US nuclear bomb test
1945
When was the Truman doctrine
march 1947
When was the Yalta conference
February 1945
When was the Tehran Conference
november 1943
When was the Grand Alliance formed
1941
When was the Potsdam Conference
july-august 1945
When was the formation of Cominform
september 1947
When did Churchill make the Iron Curtain speech
march 1946
When was the Marshall Plan announced
1947
When was Kennan’s ‘long’ telegram
february 1946
When was NATO set up
April 1949
When was the Novikov telegram
september 1946
When was Comecon set up
January 1949
When was the Berlin Blockade
June 1948 (started on the 24th)
When was the formation of the Warsaw pact
May 1955
When was the Hungarian Uprising
23 Oct 1956 – 11 Nov 1956
When was the Geneva Summit
may 1959
When did Fidel Castro overthrow the Cuban government
january 1959
When was the Bay of Pigs
17th april 1961
When was the Camp David (khrushchev’s visit to USA) Summit
september 1959
When was the Limited Test Ban Treaty
1963
When was the Vienna Summit
june 1961
When was the Cuban Missile Crisis
16th-28th 1962
When was the Outer Space Treaty signed
1967
When was the Brezhnev Doctrine
september 1968
When did the soviets invade czechoslovakia?
20 august 1968
When was the SALT 1 agreement
1972
When was the period of Detente
Late 1960s - Late 1970s
When was the Helsinki agreements
1975
When was the Moscow Olympic Boycott
1980
When was the Los Angeles Olympic Boycott
1984
When was the SALT 2 agreement
1979
When did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan
24th December 1979
When was the Carter Doctrine
1980
When did Ronald Reagan make the ‘Evil Empire’ speech
1983
