The Cold War Timeline Flashcards
1
Q
What date was…
The Potsdam conference?
A
July 1945
2
Q
What date was…
USA dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
A
6th August 1945
3
Q
What date was…
Churchill’s iron curtain speech?
A
March 1946
4
Q
What date was…
The Truman doctrine?
A
March 1947
5
Q
What date was…
The Marshall plan?
A
June 1947
6
Q
What date was…
Cominform?
A
September 1947
7
Q
What date was…
The Berlin blockade and airlift?
A
June 1948 to May 1949
8
Q
What date was…
Comecon?
A
January 1949
9
Q
What date was…
NATO established?
A
April 1949
10
Q
What date was…
West Germany created?
A
May 1949
11
Q
What date was…
USSR develops the atomic bomb?
A
August 1949
12
Q
What date was…
Eisenhower becomes president?
A
January 1950
13
Q
What date was…
Stalins death?
A
5th March 1953
14
Q
What date was…
Nikita Khrushchev becomes new leader of USSR?
A
March 1953
15
Q
What date was…
The Warsaw Pact?
A
May 1955
