Geopolitics names, dates and definitions

Friedrich Ratzel’s theory

Lebensraum

Alfred Mahan’s theory

Sea Power

John Mackinder’s theory

Heartland

Karl Haushofer’s theory

Pan-regions

Russian revolution in Petrograd

February 1917

Bolshevik revolution

October 1917

Treaty of Versailles

28 June 1919

Vienna system

The multipolar world after 1815

Assassination of Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip

28 June 1914

Sykes Picot Agreement

May 1916

Molotov-Ribbentrop act

23 August 1939

Operation Barbarossa

22 June 1941

Start of Japanese invasions in China

1937

Attack on Pearl Harbour

7 December 1941

The Allies invade Sicilly

July 1943

End of the war in Europe

8 May 1945

End of the war in Asia

2 September 1945

Casablanca conference

January 1943

Tehran conferences

Late 1943

Nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

6 and 9 August 1945

Japanese surrender from WWII

2 September 1945

The origins and development of the Cold War

1945-1953

Social mobility

The opportunities to move up the social ladder, to go study and become important

Karl Marx’s theory

Marxism/Communism

John Locke’s theory

Liberalism

The US develops the atomic bomb

1945

The USSR develops the atomic bomb

1959

Crises in Turkey

February 1946

Truman’s containment doctrine

March 1947

The European Recovery Program (Marshall Plan)

1948-1952

Creation of the COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance)

1949

Creation of the COMINFORM (Communist Information Bureau)

1947

Berlin blockade

July 1948

Creation of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) with the Washington Pact

4 April 1949

Schuman declaration

9 May 1950

Creation of the European Coal and Steel Community with the Treaty of Paris

1951

Warsaw Pact

1955

Opium wars

1839-1842 and 1856-1860

Collapse of the Manchu dynasty

1912

Mao Zedong in power

1949

Chinese friendship treaty with the USSR

1950

Japanese invasion of the Korean empire

1910

North Korean invasion of South Korea

1950

Death of Joseph Stalin

1953

Cold war crises and changes

1953-1963

Uprisings in Poznan (Poland)

June 1956

Peaceful protests in Hungary

23 October 1956

Bandung conference

April 1955

Creation of the Non-Aligned movement

1961

Establishment of the Viet Minh government by Ho chi Minh

1945

French bombardment of Haiphong

November 1946

Geneva conference

May 1954

Reunification of Vietnam

1956

The Geneva Accords are signed for Viet Nam

21 July 1954

Start of the Algerian war for independance

1954

Charles de Gaulle in power

1958

The Evian Accords

March 1962

Independance of Algeria

5 July 1962

Independance of India

August 1947

Nationalisation of the Suez Canal company

26 June 1956

Berlin conference

1884-1885

Lumumba is elected Prime Minister of Congo

May 1960

Independance of Congo

30 June 1960

Assassination of Lumumba

January 1961

Juvenal Habyarimana’s coup in Rwanda

1973

Independance of Rwanda

July 1962

Independance of Burundi

July 1962

Fidel Castro’s coup

1959

Bay of Bigs invastion by JFK

1961

Cuban missile crisis

October 1962

Creation of the Moscow–Washington hotline

1963

The Cold War of peaceful coeaxistence and the rise of multipolarity

1963-1971

Helsinki agreements

1975

Assassination of JFK

22 November 1963

Civil Rights Act

1964

Voting Rights Act

1965

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

1972

Francee withdraws from NATO’s integrated military command structure

1966

The Harmel report (Report of the Council on the Future Tasks of the Alliance)

1967

Attack of Prague by the USSR (Prague Spring)

20 August 1968

Sino-soviet split

1963

China develops a nuclear weapon

1964

China develops a hydrogen bomb

1967

Cultural revolution

1966-1969/1976

Death of Mao Zedong

1976

Ceasefire between China and the USSR

11 September 1969

China invites an American table tennis team to Beijing

April 1971

Formal diplomatic relations between the US and China

1979

USS Maddox is attacked by the north Vietnamese

August 1964

Tonkin Resolution

1964-1973

The Tet offensive

January 1968

Ceasefire between the US and Viet Nam

1973

North Vietnamese invation of South Viet Nam

1975

Prince Sihanouk is replaced by General Lon Nol

March 1970

The Khmer Rouge takes over Cambodia

1975

Cambodian civil war

1993

5 men are arrested at the Watergate Complex

17 June 1972

The détente era

1972-1980

The UN partition

1947

Israel proclaims independance

14 May 1948