Cold War - Key Dates

Grand alliance formed

Grand alliance formed

1941

When did Truman replace FDR?

1945

Tehran Conference

Nov - Dec 1943

Yalta Conference

Feb 1945

Potsdam Conference

July - Aug 1945

USA drops atomic bomb on Japan

Aug 1945

Long Telegram

Feb 1946

Novikov Telegram

Sept 1946

Iron Curtain Speech

March 1946

Truman Doctrine

March 1947

Marshall Plan

June 1947

Bizonia + Trizonia form

1947 then 1948

Cominform

Sept 1947

Comecon

Jan 1949

Berlin Blockade

1948-49

USSR develops own atomic bomb

1949

NATO forms

April 1949

Germany becomes 2 separate countries

Oct 1949

How long was Truman president for?

1945-53

Stalin dies

March 1953

Khrushchev in charge of the USSR

1953-1964

Warsaw Pact

May 1955

Hungarian Uprising

1956-7

Khrushchev’s Berlin Ultimatum

Nov 1958

Geneva summit

May 1959

Camp David summit

Sept 1959

Paris summit

May 1960

Vienna summit

June 1961

Name the 1959-1961 summits in order

Geneva - May 1959

Camp David - Sept 1959

Paris - May 1960

Vienna - June 1961

How long was Eisenhower president for?

1953-61

Berlin Wall built

Aug 1961

Castro becomes leader of Cuba

Jan 1959

Bay of pigs invasion

April 1961

13 days

Oct 1962

Khrushchev agrees to remove missiles from Cuba

28 Oct 1962

How long was Kennedy president for?

1961-63

Khrushchev dismissed

1963

Hotline between Moscow + Washington set up

June 1963

Test Ban Theory signed

Aug 1963

Brezhnev in charge of USSR

1964-1982

Mutually assured destruction

1965

Outer space treaty signed

1967

Nuclear mon-proliferation treaty signed

1968

Prague spring/Czechoslovakia invasion

1968

Brezhnev Doctrine

Sept 1968

How long was Nixon president for?

1969-74

Salt 1

Aug 1972

Helsinki Accords

June 1975

Apollo-Soyuz Mission

1975

Salt 2

June 1979

How long was Carter president for?

1977-81

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

Dec 1979

USA boycotts Moscow olympics

1980

USSR olympics USA olympics

1984

SDI/Star Wars announced by Reagan

Mar 1983

Gorbachev in charge

1985

Geneva Summit

Nov 1985

Reykjavik Summit

Oct 1986

Washington Summit

Dec 1987

INF Treaty signed

Dec 1987

Moscow Summit

1988

Malta Summit

1989

Name the 1985-89 summits in order

Geneva - Nov 1985

Reykjavik - Oct 1986

Washington - Dec 1987

Moscow - 1988

Malta - 1989

How long was Reagan president for?

1981-89

End of Brezhnev Doctrine

Dec 1988

End of communism in satellite states

Dec 1989

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Nov 1989

Germany reunited

1990

Failed military coup

Aug 1991

End of Warsaw pact

July 1991

Dissolution of USSR

Dec 1991