Dates of the cold war 0.0 / 5 ? HistoryThe Cold WarGCSEAQA Created by: IvytoblackCreated on: 30-03-19 13:07 October 1944 Atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1 of 40 February 1945 Yalta conference 2 of 40 July 1945 Potsdam conference 3 of 40 1946 Churchill’s iron curtain speech 4 of 40 1948 The Marshall plan 5 of 40 24th June 1948 Berlin blockade and airlift 6 of 40 14th June 1949 Albert 2 is the first monkey in space- American V2 rocket 7 of 40 1949 NATO, The blockade ends, The USSR develops its first atomic bomb, All eastern Europe governments are hardline Stalinist, China becomes communist 8 of 40 1950 NSC-68, Start of the Korean war 9 of 40 26th July 1953 The Cuban revolution starts 10 of 40 1953 End of the Korean war, Khrushchev takes over from Stalin 11 of 40 1955 Warsaw pact, West Germany joins NATO 12 of 40 1956 Kruschev does his “secret” speech, Hungarian uprising 13 of 40 14th October 1957 USSR launches Sputnik 14 of 40 4th November 1957 USSR launches Sputnik 2 15 of 40 31st January 1958 US launches the first satellite, the explorer 16 of 40 1st January 1959 The Cuban revolution ends 17 of 40 1st May 1960 U2 shot down over USSR 18 of 40 14th May 1960 Paris peace summit 19 of 40 1960 US corona spy satellite 20 of 40 1st April 1961 First man in space- cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, 21 of 40 April 1961 Bay of pigs 22 of 40 1961 USSR tests largest bomb ever exploded, Khrushchev closed the border and built the Berlin wall, Vienna summit 23 of 40 October 1962 USA discovers USSR missile bases in China 24 of 40 16th June 1963 USSR launches the first woman into space- valentina tereshkova 25 of 40 30th August 1963 USA sends first message to USSR via hotline 26 of 40 1963 NTBT agreed and signed, Kennedy “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech 27 of 40 1964 Brezhnev becomes leader of the USSR 28 of 40 3rd August 1968 Warsaw pact meeting 29 of 40 1968 Prague spring starts, Nuclear non-proliferation treaty is signed 30 of 40 16th July 1969 Neil Armstrong is the first man on the moon- USA 31 of 40 1969 SALT 1 talks begin, Nixon doctrine, End of the Prague spring 32 of 40 1971 Ping pong diplomacy 33 of 40 21st February 1972 Nixon visits China 34 of 40 22nd May 1972 Nixon visits Moscow 35 of 40 1972 East and West Germany border agreements signed, SALT 1 agreement reached 36 of 40 1973 Arab-israeli war starts 37 of 40 1974 Brezhnev visits Washington 38 of 40 July 1975 3 astronauts and 2 cosmonauts docket a spacecraft together and orbit earth 39 of 40 1979 SALT 2 40 of 40
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