all important dates for: interational relations, cold war and america 1919-48
when was the yalta conference?
feb 1945
when was the potsdam conference?
july 1945
when did churchill give his ‘iron curtain’ speech?
1946
when was cominform established?
1947
when was the truman doctrine announced?
1947
when was marshall aid announced?
1948
when was the berlin blockade imposed?
1948
when did west germany become established?
1949
when was the berlin blockade lifted?
1949
when was NATO established?
1949
when was the warsaw pact established?
1955
when did the USSR test their first atomic bomb?
1949
when was the berlin wall erected?
1961
when was JFK elected?
1961
when was the cuban missile crisis?
1962
when did fidel castro come to power?
1959
when was the bay of pigs invasion?
1961
when did khruschev place missiles in cuba?
1962
when was the nuclear test ban treaty brought in?
1963
when did france withdraw from vietnam?
1954
when was operation rolling thunder introduced?
1965
when was a significant napalm attack?
1972
when was a stalemate reached in the vietnam war?
early 1968
when was the tet offensive?
1968
when was the my lai massacre?
1968
when did the anti-war protests (against the viet war) take place?
1968-70
when did vietnamisation take place?
1969-73
when was the paris peace agreement signed?
1973
when was the strategic arms limitation treaty signed?
1972
when did north korea invade south korea?
1950
when was the paris peace conference?
1919-20
when was woodrow wilson elected?
1912 and 1916
how much did germany have to pay in reparations?
6.6 billion
how much did marshall aid pledge to the eastern bloc?
17 billion
when was the league of nations created?
1920
when was the aaland dispute?
1921
when was the upper silesian settlement?
1921
when was the corfu crisis?
1923
when was the bulgaria crisis?
1925
when was the rapallo treaty signed?
1922
when was the dawes plan signed?
1924
when were the locarno treaties signed?
1925
when was the kellogg-briand pact signed?
1928
when was the young plan signed?
1929
when did hitler take power in germany?
1933
when did benito mussolini take power in italy?
1922
when did stalin take power in the soviet union?
1929
when was COMINTERN established?
1919
when did japan invade manchuria?
1931
when was the disarmament conference?
1932
when did germany announce their rearmament program?
1935
when did italy invade abyssinia?
1935
when was the stresa pact agreed on?
april 1935
when did germany pull out of disarmament and the league of nations?
1933
when did german troops march onto the rhineland and remilitarise the region?
1936
when did italy take complete control of abyssinia?
1936
when was the rome-berlin axis signed?
late 1936
when did hitler write ‘mein kampf’?
1923-24
when was the spanish civil war?
1936
when was the anti-comintern pact signed? (axis alliance)
1936-37
when was the anschluss?
1938
when was the munich agreement signed?
1938
when did germany invade the sudetenland, czechoslovakia?
1938
when did the USSR join the league of nations?
1934
when was the mutal assistance pact signed?
1936
when was the nazi soviet pact signed?
aug 1939
when did germany invade poland (declaration of war)?
sept 1939
when was the wall street crash?
1929
when was the shepard-towner act?
1921
when did women gain the right to vote?
1920
when was the period of prohibition?
1920-1933
when was the volstead act?
1919-20
when was the st.valentine’s day massacre?
1929
when was the first red scare and the palmer raids?
1919
when was the US vs. sacco and vanzetti?
1920
when was the national origins act established?
1924
when was the revue act established?
1932
when was the first new deal?
1933-34
when was roosevelt elected?
1932
when was the second new deal?
1936
when was the revenue tax act established?
1936
when was the indian reorganisation act established?
1939
when was the espionage act established?
1917
when was the smith act established?
1940
when did the african american soldiers gain the right to combat in the armed forces?
1944
when was exec order 9981 established?
1948
when was exec order 5120 established?
1963
when was exec order 8802 established?
1941
when were the detroit race riots?
1943
when was the attack on pearl harbor?
1941
when did japanese americans gain the right to fight for the american armed forces?
1943
when was the civil liberties act?
1988