Superpower relations 1944-92 0.0 / 5 ? HistoryCold WarA2/A-levelEdexcel Created by: SophieCreated on: 27-05-15 10:45 Russian Revolution 1917 1 of 72 Tehran Conference 1943 2 of 72 Yalta and Potsdam Conferences 1945 3 of 72 Iran Crisis 1946 4 of 72 Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech 1946 5 of 72 Truman Doctrine and Marshall Aid 1947 6 of 72 Comecon and the Molotov Plan 1949 7 of 72 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima 1945 8 of 72 Greek Civil War against royalists 1946 9 of 72 Communist coup in Czechoslovakia 1948 10 of 72 Berlin Blockade 1948-9 11 of 72 NATO established 1949 12 of 72 Communist takeover in China 1949 13 of 72 Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship signed 1950 14 of 72 Start of the Korean War 1950 15 of 72 Ceasefire in Korea 1953 16 of 72 Death of Stalin 1953 17 of 72 The first Taiwan Straights Crisis 1954 18 of 72 Geneva Conference over Indochina 1954 19 of 72 Geneva Summit (Khrushchev + Eisenhower) 1955 20 of 72 Paris Summit (Khrushchev + Eisenhower) 1960 21 of 72 Vienna Summit (Khrushchev + Kennedy) 1961 22 of 72 Warsaw Pact established 1955 23 of 72 Soviet troops invade Hungary 1956 24 of 72 Second Taiwan Straights Crisis 1958 25 of 72 U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR 1960 26 of 72 Khrushchev delivers his 'Secret Spech' 1956 27 of 72 Kennedy becomes US president 1961 28 of 72 Berlin Wall built 1961 29 of 72 Failure of the Baruch Plan to limit nuclear weapons 1946 30 of 72 Eisenhower becomes US president 1953 31 of 72 Gaither Report 1957 32 of 72 Bay of Pigs invasion 1961 33 of 72 Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 34 of 72 'Hot line' telephone link established 1963 35 of 72 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed 1963 36 of 72 Khrushchev is dismissed as Soviet leader 1964 37 of 72 China's Great Leap Forward 1958 38 of 72 The Ussuri River dispute 1969 39 of 72 Table tennis match between US + China 1971 40 of 72 Kissinger visits China 1971 41 of 72 Nixon visits China 1971 42 of 72 Nixon becomes US president 1969 43 of 72 China's Cultural Revolution 1966 44 of 72 West + East Germany sign the Basic Treaty 1972 45 of 72 USA withdraws troops from Vietnam 1973 46 of 72 SALT 1 agreed 1972 47 of 72 Helsinki Accords signed 1975 48 of 72 Carter becomes US president 1976 49 of 72 Thatcher becomes British Prime Minister 1979 50 of 72 Vienna Summit (Carter and Brezhnev) 1979 51 of 72 SALT 2 agreed 1979 52 of 72 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1979 53 of 72 USA abandons SALT 2 1980 54 of 72 Reagan becomes US president 1980 55 of 72 The Oil Crisis 1973 56 of 72 Striker in Poland organised by trade union, Solidarity 1981 57 of 72 Moscow Summit (Nixon and Brezhnev) 1972 58 of 72 Strategic Defence Initiative announced by USA 1983 59 of 72 Brezhnev dies and is replaced by Andropov 1982 60 of 72 Andropov dies and is replaced by Chernenko 1984 61 of 72 Chernenko dies and is replaced by Gorbachev 1985 62 of 72 Geneva Summit (Reagan + Gorbachev) 1985 63 of 72 Reykjavik Summit (Reagan + Gorbachev) 1986 64 of 72 Intermediate Nuclear Forces agreement signed 1987 65 of 72 Moscow Summit (Reagan + Gorbachev) 1988 66 of 72 Solidarity wins first free elections in Poland 1989 67 of 72 Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 68 of 72 End of communist regimes in Eastern Europe 1989 69 of 72 Malta Summit (Gorbachev + Bush) 1989 70 of 72 Reunification of Germany 1990 71 of 72 USSR formally disolved 1991 72 of 72
The post-Stalin thaw in superpower relations between 1953 and 1962 and Khrushchev’s policy of Peaceful Coexistence 5.0 / 5 based on 1 rating Teacher recommended
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