Cold War Flashcards
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1917
Bolshevik Revolution
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1943
'Big Three' meet at Tehran
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Feb. 1945
Yalta Conference
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Jul. 1945
First test firing of the atomic bomb
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Jul-Aug 1945
Potsdam Conference
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Aug. 1945
USA dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Nov. 1945
Communists win rigged elections in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria
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1946
Failure of the Baruch Plan; Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech
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Mar. 1947
Launch of the Truman Doctrine
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Jun. 1947
Marshall Plan established
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Jul. 1947
USSR forces Poland and Czechoslovakia to turn down Marshall Aid
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Aug. 1947
Communists win rigged elections in Hungary
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Sep. 1947
Cominform established
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Feb. 1948
Communist 'coup d'etat' in Czechoslovakia
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Jun. 1948
Berlin Blockade begins
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Apr. 1949
NATO established
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May 1949
Berlin Blockade lifted
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Aug. 1949
USSR tests atomic bomb
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Sep. 1949
Communists take over China
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1950
Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance signed; Sino-Soviet Alliance signed
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Jun. 1950
Korean War starts
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1952
USA tests the hydrogen bomb
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Mar. 1953
Stalin dies
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Jul. 1953
Ceasefire agreed in Korea
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Aug. 1953
USSR explodes its lithium bomb
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Sep. 1953
Khrushchev becomes First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party
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Mar. 1954
USA explodes its lithium bomb
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Jul. 1954
Geneva Agreement on Indochina
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Sep. 1954
Taiwan Straits crisis develops
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Oct. 1954
Khrushchev's first visit to Beijing; Khrushchev refused to lessen Soviet ties in Mongolia or allow China to expand its control in North Korea
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1955
USA develops first intercontinental bombers
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May 1955
Warsaw Pact established; USSR signs agreement recognising Austrian independence
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Jul. 1955
Geneva Summit (Khrushchev and Eisenhower)
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1956
USSR develops TU20 Bear; Khrushchev denounces Stalin at the 20th Party Congress; Mao criticises Khrushchev as a revisionist
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Nov. 1956
Soviet troops invade Hungary
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1957
USSR develops the first ICBM
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Oct. 1957
Sputnik is launched
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Nov. 1957
Sputnik II is launched; Gaither Report warns Eisenhower of the missile gap
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1958
Khrushchev criticises Mao's Great Leap Forward
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Aug. 1958
Crisis develops in Taiwan Straits
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Nov. 1958
Start of the second Berlin crisis when Khrushchev asks the West to leave Berlin
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1959
Castro leads the revolution in Cuba
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Jun. 1959
USSR cancels Sino-Soviet agreement on atomic cooperation
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Sep. 1959
Khrushchev visits the USA; Mao condemns the Soviet rapprochement with the USA
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1960
USSR pulls out all economic aid and advisers from China
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May 1960
U-2 spy plane shot down over the USSR; Paris Summit (Eisenhower and Khrushchev) abandoned
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Jul. 1960
USA launches the first SLBM
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1961
China gives economic support to Albania after it splits with the USSR; China encourages Romania to become more independent
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Jan. 1961
Kennedy becomes US President
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Apr. 1961
Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space; Bay of Pigs invasion
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Jun. 1961
Vienna Summit (Kennedy and Khrushchev)
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Aug. 1961
Berlin Wall erected
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1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
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1963
USSR and China relations deteriorate after a failed meeting
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Jun. 1963
'Hot line' telephone link is established; Test Ban Treaty is signed
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1964
Khrushchev and Mao resort to bitter personal attacks
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Aug. 1964
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution leads to increased US involvement in Vietnam
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Oct. 1964
Khrushchev dismissed as Soviet leader; China explodes its first nuclear bomb
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1965
USSR develops a policy of trying to isolate China in international affairs by strengthening its ties in Mongolia, North Korea and North Vietnam
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1968
Mao's attacks on the Soviet Union's leadership increases during the Cultural Revolution
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Aug. 1968
Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
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Jan. 1969
Nixon becomes US President; Henry Kissinger is appointed National Security Adviser; Willy Brandt becomes Chancellor of West Germany
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Mar. 1969
Ussuri River dispute
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1970
Sino-Soviet relations improve slightly with the visit of Kosygin to China
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1971
Kissinger visits China, giving Nixon the opportunity to visit; Chinese relations with the USSR deteriorate
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May 1972
Salt I
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Dec. 1972
West and East Germany sign the Basic Treaty, accepting the existence of each other as separate states
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Jan. 1973
USA signs Paris Peace Settlement and agrees to withdraw troops from Vietnam
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Jul. 1973
Talks begin between NATO and Warsaw Pact countries, leading to the Helsinki Accords
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1975
Helsinki Accords
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1976
Jimmy Carter becomes US President
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1977
Carter appoints Brzezinski as his National Security Adviser
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1979
Thatcher becomes British Prime Minister; Vienna Summit (Carter and Brezhnev) leads to the signing of Salt II
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Dec. 1979
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
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Jan. 1980
USA suspends ratification of Salt II in protest of the Afghanistan invasion
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Nov. 1980
Reagan is elected US President
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Dec. 1980
Martial law introduced in Poland as a response to Solidarity
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Jan. 1981
Strikes in Poland organised by Solidarity
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1982
Brezhnev dies and Andropov becomes new Soviet leader
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1983
South Korean airline shot down by Soviet air force; US troops invade Grenada to depose left-wing government
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Mar. 1983
Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI)) announced
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1984
Andropov dies and Chernenko becomes new Soviet leader
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1985
Chernenko dies and Gorbachev becomes new Soviet leader; Geneva Summit (Reagan and Gorbachev)
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1986
Reykjavik Summit (Gorbachev and Reagan)
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1987
Washington Summit (Reagan and Gorbachev); INF agreement signed
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1988
Moscow Summit (Gorbachev and Reagan)
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Dec. 1988
Gorbachev announces major reductions in Soviet forces in Europe
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1989
Collapse of Communist regimes in Eastern Europe
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Sep. 1989
First free elections in Poland, Solidarity wins and forms government; Hungary opens its borders with Austria
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Nov. 1989
Fall of the Berlin Wall; collapse of communist regimes in Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria
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Dec. 1989
Malta Summit (Bush and Gorbachev); collapse of the communist regime in Romania
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Oct. 1990
Reunification of Germany
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Aug-Dec 1991
Baltic States and Ukraine vote for independence from the USSR
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25th December 1991
USSR formally dissolved
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Card 2
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'Big Three' meet at Tehran
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1943
Card 3
Front
Yalta Conference
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Card 4
Front
First test firing of the atomic bomb
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Card 5
Front
Potsdam Conference
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