USA & Wider World Key Dates

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Neutrality acts
1935,36 & 37
1 of 71
Kellogg-Briand Pact
1928
2 of 71
Lend lease act
March 1941
3 of 71
Pearl Harbour
Sunday 7th December 1941
4 of 71
War in Europe
1941-45
5 of 71
D day
June 1944
6 of 71
Germany surrendered WWII
8th May 1945
7 of 71
The war in the Pacific (war against Japan)
1941-45
8 of 71
USA regained control of Pacific by defeating Japanese at the BATTLE OF CORAL SEA & BATTLE OF MIDWAY ISLAND
1942
9 of 71
USA attacked the Philippines
October 1944
10 of 71
USA captured islands of IWO JIMA & OKINAWA
February 1945
11 of 71
First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by US bomber Enola Gay
6th August 1945
12 of 71
Second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
9th August 1945
13 of 71
Japan finally surrendered on...
2nd September 1945
14 of 71
Truman Doctrine
1947
15 of 71
Marshall Aid/Plan
1947
16 of 71
The national security act of... Created NSC (National Security Council) and CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
1947
17 of 71
Berlin Blockade
1948-49 (Started on 24th June 1948)
18 of 71
Berlin Wall
1961
19 of 71
Events in Berlin led to the formation of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) in ...
1949
20 of 71
In response the USSR formed the Warsaw Pact in ...
1955
21 of 71
The Korean War
1950-51
22 of 71
When did China become a communist country?
1949
23 of 71
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
24 of 71
President Kennedy gave his support to a CIA organised invasion of Cuba by a group of Anti-Castro Cuban Exiles in the Bay of Pigs invasion
17th April 1961
25 of 71
Russians installing missile launching sites on Cuba were photographed by US Spy planes
October 1962
26 of 71
Kennedy announced blockade on Cuba, asking Krushchev to stop supplying missile to them
October 22nd 1962
27 of 71
Soviet ships turned back
October 24th 1962
28 of 71
Krushchev then sent a letter to Kennedy agreeing to remove missiles if the USA stopped their blockade on Cuba and promised not to invade again. Kennedy Agreed
26th October 1962
29 of 71
Krushchev sent a further letter demanding US removed its missiles from Turkey. Kennedy agreed.
27th October 1962
30 of 71
USSR agreed to remove missiles from Cuba and not install any more.
October 28th 1962
31 of 71
Both countries signed Test ban treaty and set up 'hotline'
1963
32 of 71
Vietnam War
1963-1975
33 of 71
By now, over 540,000 American troops were in Vietnam fighting
1968
34 of 71
Students at Kent State Uni, Ohio held a demonstration, 4 students were killed and 9 were wounded
4th May 1970
35 of 71
By now, 160 Americans were being killed in Vietnam EACH WEEK!
1967
36 of 71
Vietcong launched TET OFFENSIVE
January 1968
37 of 71
The war made President Johnson so unpopular that he didn't stand for re-election, new President Nixon introduced new policy 'VIETNAMIZATION'
1968
38 of 71
By now, due to VIETNAMIZATION' policy, the number of troops in Vietnam had been halved
1971
39 of 71
Nixon didnt want communists to win so at this time he started secretly bombing CAMBODIA so that supplies that were being sent to the Vietcong via the HO CHI MIN TRAIL would be stopped.
1969
40 of 71
A ceasefire was agreed between North and South Vietnam
1973
41 of 71
Whilst American troops were returning home, the WARSAW PACT was passed
1973
42 of 71
The North Vietnamese launched a massive invasion of the South. USA refused to help. South was defeated quickly and Vietnam became a single nation under communist government :(
1975
43 of 71
Detente and arms limitation
1972-1979
44 of 71
SALT 1 (STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION TALKS)
1969
45 of 71
HELSINKI ACCORD
1975
46 of 71
SALT 2
1979
47 of 71
USSR invaded Afghanistan
December 1979
48 of 71
USA boycotted Moscow Olympics (in retaliation)
1980
49 of 71
Mikhail Gorbachev became new USSR leader
1985
50 of 71
Star Wars
1983
51 of 71
Two leaders (Reagan and Gorbachev) agreed on INF (INTERMEDIATE NUCLEAR FORCES TREATY)
1987
52 of 71
The communist party fell from power in USSR
1991
53 of 71
End of Cold War as 2 countries no longer regarded each other as enemies
1992
54 of 71
US relations with Iran
1979-2000
55 of 71
The Shah of Iran was overthrown and driven from the country (the leader)
1979
56 of 71
Students in Teheran stormed the American Embassy and took hostages
November 1979
57 of 71
Negotiations freed the hostages in... (All of this was in return for the unfreezing of $7.9 billion of Iranian money in the US
1981
58 of 71
The Iran-Contra affair
1985-85
59 of 71
Operation Praying Mantis
1988
60 of 71
The USS Vincennes Incident
1988
61 of 71
Trade Embargos
1995
62 of 71
US relations with Iraq
1990-2000
63 of 71
The Persian Gulf War
1991
64 of 71
Sad dam Hussein became leader of Iraq
1979
65 of 71
Iraq quarrelled with Kuwait over oil
1990
66 of 71
Iraq invaded Kuwait, which was a threat to Saudi Arabia (worlds largest oil importer and exporter), therefore NATO and US rushed troops to Saudi to stop possible attack. This military build up was known as OPERATION DESERT SHIELD
2nd August 1990
67 of 71
In November, UN allowed use of force against Iraq if they failed to withdraw from Kuwait by this time
January 15th 1991
68 of 71
Operation desert storm launched when Persian gulf war began on (air offensive)
January 16-17 1991
69 of 71
Operation Desert Sabre (ground offensive) launched on
24 February 1991
70 of 71
Iraq's failure to cooperate with UN inspectors led to war briefly restarting (OPERATION DESERT FOX)
1998
71 of 71

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

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1928

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Lend lease act

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Front

Pearl Harbour

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War in Europe

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