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Flashcards by Arianna Weaving, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Arianna Weaving
over 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| November 1944 | Tehran Conference |
| February 1945 | Yalta Conference |
| April 1945 | Roosevelt dies - Truman made President |
| May 1945 | Victory in Europe |
| June 1945 | UNO formed |
| July 1945 | Potsdam Conference |
| August 1945 | Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| February 1946 | Stalin's Two Camps Speech |
| March 1946 | Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech |
| March 1947 | Truman Doctrine |
| June 1947 | Marshall Plan Proposed |
| July 1947 | Kennan's 'Mr X' Article |
| October 1947 | Cominform Created |
| February 1948 | Czech Coup : Marshall Plan implmented |
| June 1948 | Berlin Blockade and Yugoslavia expelled from Cominform |
| November 1948 | Truman Re-elected |
| January 1949 | COMECON founded |
| April 1949 | NATO established |
| May 1949 | Berlin Blockade ends |
| September 1949 | USSR explodes atom bomb and FDR established |
| October 1949 | GDR established and Mao proclaims foundation of People's republic in China |
| April 1950 | NSC-68 |
| June 1950 | North Korea invades South Korea |
| September 1951 | USA and Japan sign mutual security pact |
| November 1952 | Eisenhower elected |
| March 1953 | Stalin dies |
| June 1953 | East German Uprising |
| July 1953 | Armistice in Korea |
| January 1954 | Dulles announces 'massive retaliation' policy |
| May 1954 | Fall of Dien Bien Phu |
| July 1954 | Geneva Conference on Vietnam |
| September 1954 | SEATO established |
| October 1954 | West Germany joins NATO |
| May 1955 | Warsaw Pact signed |
| July 1955 | Geneva Summit |
| September 1955 | Nasser announces arms deal with USSR |
| November 1955 | Baghdad Pact |
| February 1956 | Krushchev's 'de-Stalinization' speech / 'peaceful co-existence' promoted |
| July 1956 | Suez Crisis |
| October 1956 | Hungarian Uprising suppressed |
| October 1957 | Sputnik launched by USSR |
| January 1959 | Castro takes power in Cuba |
| May 1959 | Dulles dies |
| September 1959 | Khrushchev visits USA |
| May 1960 | U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR |
| November 1960 | Kennedy elected and Sino-Soviet split confirmed |
| January 1961 | USA breaks off relations with Cuba |
| August 1961 | Berlin Wall built |
| October 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| August 1963 | Partial Test-ban Treaty signed in Moscow (USA, USSR and UK) |
| November 1963 | President Kennedy assassinated - Johnson now President |
| August 1964 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution / USA goes to war in Vietnam |
| October 1964 | Khrushchev deposed - replaced by Brezhnev and China detonates A - bomb |
| November 1964 | Johnson re-elected |
| July 1968 | Brezhnev Doctrine |
| August 1968 | Warsaw Pact invades Czechoslovakia |
| November 1968 | Nixon elected |
| November 1969 | Nuclear non-proliferation Treaty |
| April 1970 | SALT talks begin |
| October 1971 | UN admits China, expelling Taiwan |
| February 1972 | Nixon visits China |
| May 1972 | Nixon visits USSR and SALT 1 signed |
| November 1972 | Nixon re-elected |
| August 1974 | Nixon resigns over Watergate |
| April 1975 | Communist victory in Veitnam & Cambodia |
| August 1975 | Helsinki Final Act signed |
| February 1976 | SEATO disbands |
| September 1976 | Mao dies |
| November 1976 | Carter elected |
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