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Cold War Key Dates Flashcards
Cards in this deck (55)
- 1Yalta Conference1945
- 2Bombing of Hiroshima6 August 1945
- 3Iron Curtain Speech1946
- 4Truman Doctrine1947
- 5Marshall Plan1947
- 6Baruch Plan failed1946
- 7Communist Coup Czechoslovakia1948
- 8Berlin Blockade1948-1949
- 9Nato Established1949
- 10USSR tests Atomic Bomb1949
- 11CCP take over China1949
- 12Korean War Start1950
- 13USA tests Hydrogen Bomb1952
- 14Stalin's Death1953
- 15Korean CeasefireJuly 1953
- 16Geneva Agreement on Indochina1954
- 171st Taiwan Straits Crisis1954
- 18Khrushchev's first visit to China1954
- 19USA first Intercontinental Bombers1955
- 20Warsaw Pact Established1955
- 21Geneva Summit1955
- 22Khrushchev's Secret Speech1956
- 23USSR first TU20 bear (intercontinental bomber)1956
- 24Soviets invade Hungary1956
- 25Sputnik1957
- 26Eisenhower warned of Missile Gap1957
- 27Khrushchev criticises Great Leap Forward1958
- 282nd Berlin Crisis1958
- 292nd Taiwan Straits Crisis1958
- 30Sino-Soviet agreement on atomic cooperation cancelled1959
- 31Cuban Revolution1959
- 32U2 Spy Plane incident1960
- 33JFK becomes President1961
- 34Yuri Gugarin first man in space1961
- 35Bay of Pigs invasion1961
- 36Vienna Summit1961
- 37Berlin Wall erected1961
- 38Cuban Missile CrisisOctober 1962
- 39Hot line telephone link/Nuclear test ban treaty1963
- 40China 1st Nuclear Bomb test1964
- 41Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia1968
- 42Sino-Soviet border clashes - Ussuri River1969
- 43Nixon Visits China1972
- 44Salt I agreed1972
- 45Apollo-Soyuz Link up1975
- 46Helsinki Accords1975
- 47Salt II signed but not ratified1979
- 48Soviets invade Afghanistan1979
- 49Martial Law in Poland1980
- 50SDI announced1983
- 51Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader1985
- 52Washington Summit (INF Treaty)1987
- 53Collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe1989
- 54Reunification of Germany1990
- 55End of USSR25th December 1991
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- A-Levels Cold War Flashcards on Cold War Key Dates Flashcards, created by jacksearle on 10/02/2014.
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