Cold War - Dates and Events 0.0 / 5 ? HistoryThe Cold WarGCSEEdexcel Created by: everything1177Created on: 15-05-14 16:56 Tehran conference 1943 1 of 63 Yalta conference 1945 2 of 63 Potsdam conference 1945 3 of 63 Churchill's iron curtain specch 1946 4 of 63 Truman Doctrine 1947 5 of 63 Marshall Plan 1947 6 of 63 Marshall Aid 1947 7 of 63 Cominform 1947 8 of 63 Berlin airlift 1948 9 of 63 NATO 1949 10 of 63 Comecon 1949 11 of 63 Chinese communist revolution 1949 12 of 63 USSR first atom bomb test 1949 13 of 63 Korean war 1950-55 14 of 63 Stalin's death - Khrushchev became leader 1953 15 of 63 Eisenhower took Truman's place 1953 16 of 63 USSR and USA possessed a hydrogen bomb 1953 17 of 63 USA tested the hydrogen bomb 1954 18 of 63 Warsaw Pact 1955 19 of 63 Khrushchev's secret speech 1956 20 of 63 Hungarian uprising 1956-57 21 of 63 US spending on armaments increased by 20% 1957 22 of 63 Fidel Castro gained power in Cuba 1959 23 of 63 John.F.Kennedy became president 1961 24 of 63 Berlin Crisis (led to Berlin wall) 1961 25 of 63 Bay of Pigs invasion 1961 26 of 63 Cuban Missiles Crisis 1962 27 of 63 Brezhnev became leader of USSR 1964 28 of 63 Prague Spring and invasion of Czechoslovakia 1968 29 of 63 Brezhnev Doctrine 1968 30 of 63 Nixon became president 1969 31 of 63 Development of detente 1970s 32 of 63 Salt I Agreement 1972 33 of 63 Nixon's visit to Moscow 1972 34 of 63 Us and USSR astronaut's met up in space 1975 35 of 63 Helsinki Agreements 1975 36 of 63 Carter became president 1977 37 of 63 SALT II 1979 38 of 63 Collapse of detente 1979 39 of 63 USSR invasion of Afghanistan 1979 40 of 63 US boycott of Moscow Olympics 1980 41 of 63 Raegan became president 1981 42 of 63 START meetings between Raegan and Brezhnev 1982 43 of 63 Death of Brezhnev - replaced by Andropov 1983 44 of 63 Ragean announced SDI (Star Wars Programme) 1983 45 of 63 Death of Andropov - replaced by Cherenko 1984 46 of 63 USSR boycott of LA Olympics 1984 47 of 63 Death of Cherenko - replaced by Gorbachev 1985 48 of 63 Geneva Accord 1985 49 of 63 Reykjavik summit meeting 1986 50 of 63 INF (Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty) 1987 51 of 63 Gorbachev rejected Brezhnev Doctrine 1988 52 of 63 Sinatra Doctrine 1989 53 of 63 End of Cold war 1989 54 of 63 Collapse of Communism in eastern Europe 1989 55 of 63 Germany united 1989 56 of 63 George Bush (senior) became president 1989 57 of 63 Demonstrations in east Germany 1990 58 of 63 Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia declared themselves independent 1990 59 of 63 CFE (Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty) 1990 60 of 63 START talks 1991 61 of 63 Gorbachev almost overthrown 1991 62 of 63 Gorbachev resigned 1991 63 of 63
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