Timeline Flashcards
After Roosevelt died
Feb45 yalta
After yalta
8may45 VE Day
After VE Day
Jul45 Potsdam
After Potsdam
46 Churchill speech at Fulton
After Fulton
47- Truman doctrine, m plan, USA fund gb in Greece, comniterm
Ussr take Poland and Hungary
After Truman doctrine
Jan47 bizonia
After bizonia
Dec47 London conference
After London conference
Mar48 Czech turned communist—–> marshal plan approved
After Marshall plan approved
Jun48- w germany united , new currency
After west Germany United
49 Renamed German Democratic Republic
After GDR
50 n.korea got communist support, invaded south
After Korean invasion
Oct50- un took back south and most of north
After un take most of Korea
Nov50 Chinese people’s volunteers push back to Pusan pocket
After Pusan pocket
53- Eisenhower ended Korean War by threat of nuke
After end of Korean War
55 Warsaw Pact
After Warsaw Pact
oct56 Nagy took over from Rakosi
After Nagy took over
Nov56 he announced that they’d leave the Warsaw Pact
What happened throughout 1945
Roosevelt death, Truman ,38th parallel, ussr took Albania and Bulgaria
After announcement of Warsaw Pact
Nov56- days later Krushchev sent in tanks
After Krushchev sent tanks to Hungary
Nov56- Nagy asked him to pull them
After tanks leave Hungary
57- Sputnik into orbit
After Sputnik
59- Castro came to power
After Castro come to power
1may60 U2 shot down
After U2 shot down
14may60 Paris peace summit
After Paris peace summit
61 Gagarin the Alan Shepard ,Vienna summit
After Gagarin
Apr61- bay of pigs
After bay of pigs
13aug61 Berlin Wall begins
After Berlin Wall started
Apr62- USA place missiles in Turkey
After missiles placed in Turkey
22 oct62 Cuban missile crisis begins
After missile crisis begins
23oct62 JFK States that they’re just for security
After just for security
24oct56 Krushchev states that there will be a ‘fitting reply to the aggressor’
After aggressor
25oct62 soviet ships turn back
After soviet ships turn back
26oct62Krushchev offered to dismantle Cuban bases if USA stopped blockade
After kruschchevs initial offer
27oct62 kruschchev change deal to include turkey, later that day JFK agreed but only in private
After kennedys counter offer
28oct56- Krushchev agreed
After Krushchev agreed about Cuba
Nov62 all Russian bomber left Cuba
After ussr bombers left Cuba
63 hotline between oval and kremlin , nuclear test ban treaty
After test ban treaty
Jul68- non proliferation treaty signed (2years to take effect)
After non proliferation treaty
Apr68 Prague spring
After Prague spring
20aug68 Warsaw Pact tanks into Prague
After tanks into Prague
69- man on the moon
After Neil on moon
71- USA dropped Vito, china joined Un, us played table tennis there
After china joined UN
72- salt1 , Nixon visited china
After salt1
73- Arab Israel war
After Arab Israel war
75- Helsinki agreement
After Helsinki agreement
79 ussr invaded afghan, salt2 but hindered by invasion
After invasion of afghan
80USA boycott Olympics, Iraq invaded Iran, Tito died
After USA boycott Olympics
86- Chernobyl
After Chernobyl
87- intermediate range nuclear forces treaty signed
After intermediate range nuclear forces treaty
89- Berlin Wall came down
After Berlin Wall came down
90 transatlantic declaration
After transatlantic declaration
2aug90 Iraq invade Kuwait, UN. Published resolution 660
After Iraq invade Kuwait
29nov90 resolution 678
After resolution 678
91Slovenia ,Bosnia Herzegovina and Croatia declare independence
After Slovenia BH and cro declare independence
17jan91 desert storm
After desert storm
24feb91 UN enter Kuwait, liberated within 4 days
After Kuwait liberated
26dec91 dissolution of Soviet Union
After dissolution of Soviet Union
Oct94- Iraqi troops massed at Kuwait border
After Iraqi troops at Kuwait border
92- US intervention began in Somalia (ended following year)
After Somalia
93 attack on world trade centre
After attack on the world trade centre
94 USA helped Haitian democratic leader recover from coup
After USA in Haiti
95 Croats won back Serb Republic and began ethnic cleansing, NATO implementation force formed
After Croats took back Serb Republic
96 Kosovo liberation army began terrorist attacks on Serbian targets
After Kosovo attacks
98- us embassy in Tanzania attacked
After Tanzania
03 second gulf war
