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Flashcards by Phoebe Leech, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Phoebe Leech
over 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Feb 1945 | Yalta Conference -Churchill, Roosevelt & Stalin |
| July - Aug 1945 | Potsdam Conference -Attlee, Truman & Stalin |
| 1945 | US has developed Atomic Bomb Stalin is unaware |
| 6 Aug 1945 | Atomic bombing of Hiroshima First Stalin knows of Atomic Bomb |
| 9 Aug 1945 | Atomic bombing of Nagasaki |
| 5 March 1946 | Churchill's Iron Curtain speech |
| March - July 1947 | Truman Doctrine -the "containment" of Soviet expansion |
| Sept 1947 | Creation of Cominform -The Communist Information Bureau, to spread communism & protect communist states from US aggression |
| June 1947 - March 1948 | Marshall Plan -fund of $15 billion US aid for Europe |
| 24 June 1948 - 12 May 1949 | Berlin Blockade |
| 26 June 1948 - 12 May 1949 | Berlin Airlift |
| May 1949 | Stalin calls off Berlin Blockade Permanent Division of Germany |
| 4 April 1949 | Creation of NATO -North Atlantic Treaty Organisation |
| Jan 1949 | Creation of Comecon -Soviet equivalent of Marshall Aid |
| 1945-49 | Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe -E.Germany, Romania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary & Bulgaria |
| June 1950 | N.Korea invade S.Korea |
| Sept 1950 | UN troops land in S.Korea and drive the N.Koreans back |
| Oct 1950 | UN troops conquer N.Korea |
| Nov 1950 | Chinese attack and drive UN troops back. They capture N.Korea and advance into S.Korea. |
| March 1951 | UN troops fight back to the 38th Parallel |
| July 1951 | The war becomes static with neither side making advancements. Peace talks begin. |
| July 1953 | After two years of border clashes, President Eisenhower threatens to use the atomic bomb. An armistice is signed and a demilitarised zone set up. |
| 1952 | US test Hydrogen Bomb |
| 1953 | USSR also have the H-bomb |
| Sept 1954 | Creation of SEATO -South East Asia Treaty Organisation |
| 14 May 1955 | Warsaw Pact established |
| 25 Feb 1956 | Khrushchev's secret speech -declares De-Stalinisation |
| Nov 1956 | The Hungarian Uprising |
| 1957 | Sputnik 1 - first artificial Earth-orbiting satellite (USSR) Sputnik 2 - first animal in space, a dog called Laika |
| Jan 1958 | First US satellite in space |
| Sept 1959 | Luna 2 (Soviet) hits the surface of the moon |
| 16 Feb 1959 | Fidel Castro comes to power in Cuba |
| May 1960 | U-2 Incident. Calling off of the Paris Summit |
| April 1961 | Bay of Pigs - failed attack on Cuba |
| April 1961 | Yuri Gagarin (Soviet), the first man put into orbit in Vostok 1 |
| May 1961 | Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space |
| 13 Aug 1961 | Construction of the Berlin Wall |
| March 1962 | Start of the Disarmament Conference in Geneva - ended w/ first agreements on the control of nuclear weapons |
| 14 Oct - 28 Oct 1962 | The Cuban Missile Crisis |
| June 1963 | A "hot line" - direct telephone link set up between Washington & Moscow |
| Aug 1963 | The Test Ban Treaty -banned testing of nuclear weapons in the air or in the water |
| 26 June 1963 | Kennedy's visit to West Berlin -"Ich bin ein Berliner - I am a Berliner" |
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