Alliances and Shifts DATES

The FRG joins the Council of Europe and receives the right to establish consulates in other countries and to have direct representation on the Organisation of European Economic Cooperation

November 1949

Eisenhower is elected as US president

November 1952

NSC 162/2 is presented

October 1953

Dulles announces the ‘massive retaliation’ strategy

January 1954

The Geneva Conference

July 1954

SEATO alliance is established

September 1954

West Germany joins NATO; the Warsaw Pact is set up

May 1955

The USSR agrees to provide defence-related technology to China.

May 1953

Nikita Khrushchev visits China as a sign of the reinforcement of Sino–Soviet links.

September and October 1953

The General Treaty is signed in Bonn and abolished the statute of occupation and thereby recognised the full sovereignty of the FRG.

May 1952

By ____, France had suffered ______ casualties in its bid to hold on to Vietnam.

1952, 90,000

By ____ the USA was paying __ per cent of the costs of the French-Vietnamese war.

1954, 75