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Flashcards by otloveschocolate, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by otloveschocolate
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| Question | Answer |
| FEBRUARY 1945 | YALTA Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill. Agreed to seperate Germany into four zones of occupation |
| JUNE 1945 | POTSDAM Stalin, Truman, Atlee. Disagreements over reparations & Poland. Truman doesn't tell Stalin of atomic bomb |
| MARCH 1947 | TRUMAN DOCTRINE USA must CONTAIN COMMUNISM |
| JUNE 1947 | MARSHALL PLAN Truman asks Congress for $17bn to spend on Europe to stop communism. |
| JANUARY 1947 | BIZONIA USA & GB merge zones, forming BIZONIA |
| JUNE 1948 | WEST GERMANY USA, GB & France combine zones to form new country, West Germany |
| 24 JUNE 1948 | BERLIN BLOCKADE Stalin blocks all entry to West Berlin. Lasts 318 days. |
| MAY 1949 | BLOCKADE ABANDONED |
| 1949 | NATO SET UP |
| 1950 | KOREAN WAR |
| SEPT- OCT 1950 | UN PUSHES BACK UN troops land in Korea (led by General McArthur) & push NKPA back |
| NOVEMBER 1950 | CHINA PUSH BACK Chinese People's Volenteers push UN troops back through S.Korea |
| AFTER NOV. 1950 | 38TH PARALLEL UN land more troops & push China back to 38th parallel, where fighting stays until 1953 |
| 1953 | EISENHOWER OFFERS PEACE If China don't accept, he threatens use of atomic bomb. |
| 1955 | WARSAW PACT Khrushchev set up Warsaw Pact as military alliance of communist countries, to rival NATO |
| 1959 | CASTRO TOOK POWER Fidel Castro siezed power from USA- backed Colonel Batista (dictator). |
| 1 MAY 1960 | U2 INCIDENT USA U2 spy plane shot down over Russia, USA claimed was weather plane. Gary Powers captured. |
| 14 MAY 1960 | PARIS SUMMIT MEETING Khrushchev demanded Eisenhower apologise for U2, refuses, summit meeting (possible nuclear test ban treaty) collapses. |
| JUNE 1961 | VIENNA SUMMIT Khrushchev demands West leave Berlin within 6 months, refuse, closes border between East & West |
| AUGUST 1961 | BERLIN WALL Berlin Wall put up |
| 1961 | BAY OF PIGS With Kennedy's knowledge, CIA train 1,300 Cuban refugees, try and overthrow Castro- DISASTER |
| 1962 | Russian Missiles found on Cuba |
| OCTOBER 1962 | Letters between Khrushchev & Kennedy |
| 1968 | PRAGUE SPRING |
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